Quote Originally Posted by Jynx View Post
The funny thing is people think the terrible dps are just poor uniformed souls who just need to be forced to see how bad they are. Parsers would magically solve the problems of terrible people in duty finder.

The reality: almost nobody you see that's a bad dps tank or healer with a bad attitude cares what you think about their rotation or parse numbers. They are using the duty finder and mashing to victory because they know there is little to no back blow to not doing your job.
Exactly the core issue. Ignoring the numbers element of this all, if you consider Duty Finder and grouping in general, the lack of feedback in the form of a reputation is a problem that covers many dimensions. If we had a reputation that others could see, then the consequences of our actions or inaction would matter. As it is with data center based DF the odds are that if you deliberately troll a group in DF, the largest and most permanent consequence will be getting kicked. Of course a system with both up and down votes is open to abuse, which is why we have commendations only.

However, commendations alone don't serve as a way of representing reputaion. Nor do they convey anything about capabilty in particular. What if after every DF run each player had a survey regarding others in the party and could award positive votes for general attitude and skill level. What is missing though is to know the scale of the vote. For example a player who ran 100 DF runs and got 50 positives would have the same apparent reputation as someone who had done 1000 runs andngot only 50 positives. So a reputaion score would need to be based on the number of positive votes weighted by the number of runs yhose votes were received over.

To combat apathy, give anyone that completes the server an extra tome as an incentive. Also, give two options, neutral feed back and positive, so that people won't just vote positive by default. This would ultimately need to be a scorethat was visible when people inspect or search for your character. It would become a reputation score for attitude and skill that follows you, even if you fantasia, change names and move servers, you repuation becomes a permanent thing that follows you. Negative votes are not part of this, they can be abused, and only runing content in DF contribute to your reputation.

This way, people might have an incentive to pay attention and not misbehave because there would be a consequence that we currently lack.

Parsers are useful to those who can understand them in context. Those people already use them. Force feeding the tool down every players throats is a bad idea in general. It only promotes toxicity in the community in my opinion.
Agreed 110%.