- FI and other faction commands (if they didn't work, but they do) only matter if you're a member of the faction. If you don't like it, don't join a faction that does it.
- Your ability to PM a specific member is entirely unaffected--just find their name in the alphabetically sorted list.
Basically, your only real complaint is that doing this prevents you from easily metagaming to find out where members of this faction are and how many are online.
I don't see the problem. Metagaming is lame anyway.
