Tank dps harrasment

[Shurrikhan]

Opt in model would defeat the entire purpose of it and the fact that you aren't aware of that further contributes to my point above about being blissfully ignorant. That just leaves the notion that you feel 'slighted' over something that doesn't even affect you, which hopefully sounds as ridiculous to you as it does to me.

While I ultimately don't see a need for opt-in, as one can simply say "this parse is one that's actually representative of what all I can do" and just link that if it somehow came down to it, there's no reason, especially in an official tool, that an opt-in model would break the system. You still publish your own battle log, encounter time, and thereby raid dps, which is likely all that matters to you, but if anyone else wishes to also publish their information, they can choose to do so, or perhaps even contextually automate that decision (opt-in to all parses with these players, and out of any others). Unless you wish to argue that including parse publications that the player is not aware of makes his metrics more authentic or relevantly informative, neither would the purpose be in any way lost by making the publication optional.

:: Just in principle, I hugely dislike the idea of "opt out". It means inconveniencing yourself each and every time, especially if the choice cannot be automated, and still possibly losing the choice by lack of notice or notification. If it's benign enough to be "opt out", it really needn't be optional at all. But if reasonably perceivable, in whomever's eyes, to be in whatever way threatening enough to need to be optional, then it should be opt in, not out. Just my personal preference in these regards.