The Real Problem with Parsers

[Aiselia]

the people who are unwilling to help themselves are the ones who turn off their parses.

Right, and with personal parsers with optional sharing, you see immediately who wants to hide their DPS so you get a better idea of how receptive they are to criticism. Sounds like a benefit to personal parsers with optional sharing, to me. You get a better idea of whether the person will be willing to listen to criticism or if they'll just ignore what you say anyways.

I'm unsure if you are going against your own stance here where you seem to be vehemently against kicking people for poor dps. Or are you just saying the group should vote abandon at that point and waste 8 peoples time instead of kicking the 1 person?

I have, at points, said that making a run take longer and outright making it impossible are different situations. I am against kicking people just for making a run take a bit longer. I'm not against kicking people making it impossible to complete it. And that applies to both DPS and other mechanics, and all three roles, tank, healer, and DPS.

if we all know the one persons poor dps is causing problems then what good does being able to hide your dps serve?

If you all know that the one person's poor DPS is causing problems, then what good does knowing their exact numbers serve?

So what is the added value of having optional sharing or hiding feature?

For runs where their DPS doesn't matter to anything but taking a few minutes longer, it's not particularly pressing to know their DPS.

They could simply not be aware of such feature and get kicked because the party thinks he/she's hiding something.

What's stopping them from asking how to share it?

Hiding your data when requested

Shows lack of desire to improve because they're potentially embarrassed over their numbers. Saves you time trying to help someone get better when they don't want it.

Fabricating your data

Optional. Sharing. Why would anybody ask for people to just state their numbers if sharing is built in to the parser?

Also, I notice that people skim over the PS3 limitations thing. What's your opinion on what needs to be removed for parsers if they couldn't even add in a TP bar without removing the party bonus to another window?