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So does your mocking question mean that, despite any requirement I asked in LFG or reasons I may only want specified people in my squad, I as the tag should still follow other people's moral expectations and not kick anyone from strikes as long as its Normal Mode? Why, because it's easy? What if I didn't think it was that easy? I grinded 300 gold to get a tag. I put myself up there in LFG and asked for people to join. I have to deal with sorting subgroups. I have to make sure everyone is doing their job while also dealing with the fight. I have to deal with the consequences if people aren't doing their job and make the calls. If I'm doing all of this, shouldn't I get at least some say in my own squad to either lower the risk of failure or lessen the time it takes to finish? If a tag isn't allowed even that bit of formality, then it's no wonder nobody ever tags up. Thank you. You made me feel much better about it. I'm pretty new with leading and also somewhat new in the game still. I was very surprised that being a commander wasn't only about simply putting a tag and posting in LFG. After tagging a while, I've been feeling a bit burdened by some of the people's expectations of me, so I got stressed out when this happened. It could also be my inexperience but I've been thinking that maybe leading isn't for me...

I'm posting this because it's been bothering me for a while. Yes, I kicked a newbie from my squad. You heard it right from me. See, here's my one and only excuse: I was mentally exhausted and haven't had any sleep after a day and a half's work. That's it. Despite this, I still wanted to do my dailies. I did my fracs, my metas, and since I had a little bit of energy left in me, I decided to do a normal mode XJJ strike. The only one I'm missing for the week. Coincidentally it was also the daily, so I thought I wouldn't need to wait long to finish it. I recently bought a tag and saw that nobody was doing it in LFG, a pretty normal sight in NA my time. Buying the tag is the best thing in the game for grouping people up. Especially when you want to just get through the content by asking for experienced people. And I did just that. I asked for experienced people for a normal mode XJJ daily. A few people came in immediately, since I was the only tag on LFG, and one person said in squad chat that they were new. They were very respectful and if it were any other day, I would have kept them in the squad. That time, I didn't want to have any mishaps nor less dps that would affect the time it would take to do this run. I just wanted to zoom as fast as possible and get it over with. So I told them that I'd rather have experienced people and insinuated that they should leave for now. I guess I was too subtle or they didn't want to leave because they stayed in the squad until I had to kick them. I warned them a couple of times before this, but I still felt guilty about it. Afterwards, someone in my squad complained about me kicking the newbie and what they said really pissed me off. Not because they were defending the newbie, but because they were judging me for my decisions as a commander and being a hypocrite about it. If they truly wanted to do a "White Knight" deed, they could have left the squad, whispered the newbie, and said "Hey, that guy was a kitten for kicking you. Why don't you join my squad and form a group together?". If they did that, it would've affected the newbie in a positive way. Instead, I get dubbed a heathen, they lectured me like they knew better (despite not even tagging themselves), guilt tripped me more than I already am, then stayed in my squad till we zoomed through XJJ like I wasn't going to block them afterwards. If I wasn't almost fainting, I would have kicked them from the squad too. So am I really the Demon Lord here? Will I always been seen as one for setting up expectations for my squad and enforcing it? Should I never kick a newbie out despite asking for experienced? You guys tell me.