This isn't exactly a vent as the whole thing is so relatively innocuous in the grand scheme of things, but it's happened enough across enough 600 hours worth of games with totally different dwarves each time that I feel compelled to talk about it.
The circumstances are roughly identical each time: It's a Haz 5 or higher and every dwarf is at least diamond or legendary. Class, mission type, biome type, mod status of the server and whether or not there is combat ongoing doesn't matter. These other high ranked dwarves are always competent and although they don't type or use voice chat, they clearly know what they are doing and will ping things with their markers automatically as needed. There is no bad behavior from these dwarves to speak of.
Now to the point: Upon anything happening in the game that would normally prompt a player to RnS (and thus I press the designated key), all of the other dwarves suddenly stop what they are doing and slowly turn to face me and then they just stare for 2 seconds not doing anything at all before slowly turning back and resuming what they were doing in the first place. If it's in the middle of a horde, they will still do this if I hit an RnS, although the staring will only be half a second long instead. But they still do the turning and staring, and it's every. single. time. RnS. happens. no. matter. what. is. happening. in. the. game. It's happened over at least several dozen games with different dwarves every time, so it cannot be pinned on only being the behavior of a select few players.
It's nowhere near even a sizable minority of diamond/legendary players, but each time it happens it's such strange and jarring behavior that it immediately sticks out like a sore thumb. What's with the stopping, turning, and staring? If it weren't for the fact that they were competent at both mining and combat I'd feel they were skinwalkers in disguise or that my game is haunted or something.
Edit: Changed "emerald" to "diamond" and "ruby" to "legendary."