Ha, brain fart.
Thought I had, I’ve not been up long. It was in the lobby, we were watching and waiting to see if they’d change for a bit, nothing happened.
Sorry.
If something discourages me from joining I just move on, especially since a lot of people don’t read what is said anyway. Which is what this thread’s about.
That aside, I like variety in the game.
Some of the rules I’ve seen are silly, yes. Maybe not yours but I’ve seen worse.
There are worse, I just enjoy the voice lines on Gears and like to hear as many characters speaking as possible. Personal taste, which is why I put it on my lobby, people may or may not disagree.
On the opposite side, sometimes people don’t read their own rules/change them for a new match;
“Master speed run! 1-50. 18+” and its frenzy on insane, they’re already on wave 4.
And there’s some that say “deposit all”, then halfway through Frenzy, they go like, “perk”.
Or if they have banned a certain class and when I join, they may be like, “you’re alright, you can stay” and they start…
“Kait, Paduk, Keegan”, but when joining as different character, they just start anyway…
Yeah, it can get a bit confusing!
Fortunately my “rule” is so general I don’t have to change it.
Do they mean the skin or their old class?!
Inquiring minds must know!
Though it’d be nice if you could lock slots to specific classes/roles.
Like slot 2 could be Combat Medic/Jack
Slot 3 Infiltrator/Blade master and so on.
Would help a few people cater to their desired incoming players.
It was in Op 4 when I would join Clock runs. I had played with the host before and they were pretty good. But unfortunately, they listed specific characters that weren’t not necessary. So I’m guessing when I joined, they didn’t mind which character I played and started anyway.
You could say I didn’t read the lobby title. 
Well I did, but sometimes hosts give you a free pass.
MONSTER!
I think there is a large issue of people not checking what theirs says at the moment though.
I might change mine to no WWE characters…
Be nice to all the noobs out there…
Had a host that kept on saying “Mac vklad” on the chat only for Mac to reply back with “???” and the next thing you know he got kicked out of the game. I did google translation and the host was saying “Mac deposit” in Czech 
You mean you don’t understand the MIGHTY CZECH language? How uneducated are you?! 
Nope
Their lobby, their rules. Let 'em enjoy the game how they want to and find a different lobby. Or better yet, make one. That’s been my philosophy.
Plus I agree with @Watery_shoe, it’s a much better horde experience when everyone plays different classes and characters. When there are duplicate characters it’s so much harder to keep track of who is who and what super is popping when. A character change shouldn’t be that hard. We can pick (almost) literally anyone we want.
Level 19+? A little crazy don’t you think?
Their lobby, their rules. 
Though for most classes, getting to lvl.16 gets you all the cards you need, and the daily and weekly challenges in Horde and Escape get you tons of cards quick, so I agree, 19 is kind of really unnecessary.
Yeah I know.
Just voicing my thoughts. I will just make sure not to join that lobby.
I used to have Master set at Lv. 16+.
Now with Operation 5, some classes have skill cards that unlocks at level 19. I want to make sure they have every skill card at their disposal.
And if RNJesus is on your side, you’d have enough duplicates of your other skill cards to get them up to Lv 5 or 6 by Lv 19.
Okay, someone doesn’t want to put some effort into it…
I resent people that make the lobby name a list of rules, I understand why they do it but it just comes off as arrogant and condescending. I always title mine something silly like “Gears of Woke” or “Bring Back the Breechshot”.
With that said I feel this though, I hate it when low levels join high difficulties… Like what do you think your level 1 score boost card is going to do for us on master?
I think using class level is a flawed benchmark. I understand why people do it. It does in theory suggest someone has made an effort to level up. And obviously when people are in low digits they deserve an insta-boot for insane and above because they won’t have unlocked all the cards and certainly won’t have levelled them up.
The problem though is that because of boost and also now because of the 4-6 XP events, you can have high class level characters with low level cards. I have a level 16 veteran, nomad and anchor, and they all only have level 2-3 cards. Why? Because I grinded out Surge Escape runs on a 6xp weekend. I would be utterly useless in an insane horde frenzy with those classes, but I would avoid booting because you cannot tell what cards people are running. Meanwhile there might be a level 10 class with level 4-5 cards because they ran no boost or didnt play on xp weekends, that can contribute more than me but they get kicked because they are judged by their class level.
I joined someone’s lobby for a master game recently on Ice Queen where the host and a friend were levels 13 and 16 or something relatively low (Fahz and Mac respectively) and I initially thought “Oh God this isn’t going to end well…” but they actually played really well and we smashed it. And Ice Queen is generally considered by most players to be in the top 5 hardest hives.
Ice Queen is a lot easier when players know how to either take out the Snipers before they become a threat or without getting shot by them and you have a designated CQC role for Grenadiers and Wardens. As well as players knowing the map layout and having a player going ahead to trigger certain spawns like the Dropshot Scion with Poppers in the first act where they can be used as friendly fire bombs, rather than waiting for everyone and having to push down the enemies while the Scion is alive and you have the lethal venom on your necks and Poppers are closing in.