Tank behavior in duties, brings lots of ???

[Olil]

I'm confused about tank behavior in duties. I like healing, but I have level, for example, gladiator to about 15 or so. I know Flash is used to generate the threat. But, a lot of times I am in duties and the gladiator won't use Flash. At all.

So, I limit my healing as much as I can, but always pull aggro and end up dying. Sometimes, people will say something about it, like, " Can you use flash more?"

The tank replies, "Sure." Then doesn't at all. But, when someone dies they run around the body spamming Flash and laughing.

Normally, I'd chock it up to poor luck of the draw. But, it's been well over a dozen times I've seen this kind of behavior or some variation of it.

So, my question is: Is there some kind of meta with how tanks perform their role in duties that I"m unaware of? Or, is it really just bad luck with random parties?

I've asked players on my server to do it as well, hoping to avoid that kind of situation. And the server-folk will often also only use their taunting skills after a player has died, running around their bodies and laughing, ultimately causing the group to abandon.