Call me crazy but I get this feeling that you two think I want the total removal of FFLogs, I am not sure where I said that but that was never my intent.
How is making a feature opt in a nuclear option? I am asking for more crosswalks and extended time for pedestrians to cross the street. That is all, will it inconvenience people sure, but far from the fact of forcing them to alter their commute. No one has proof on this subject, though if something has the potential to prevent even one case without causing people to change their very way of being why not do it? I have never stated to have proof, but if the potential is there to even prevent one case shouldn't it be looked at? As I have said we just have a different mindset when it comes to this, if opt-in will prevent even one person from getting looked up on logs and then proceed to called a shitter instead of simply saying sorry you do not met our groups requirements, and making it opt-in has been proven (by only people that can SE) to have no impact on the game why not make the change?
In the end only people that can prove anything is SE, leaving that aside though if a change like opt-in even removes one case of harassment isn't that an okay trade off? I mean to upload the data we have to create an account anyways, so making it opt-in would not change much of anything just adds an extra step after the account creation on FFLogs.
In the end we are still talking about a third party feature that is not supported by SE being something players have to opt out of. Which in itself makes no sense. We can leave all other arguments at the door, makes no sense no matter little work is involved would have to go to a third party site, make an account, to hide info they had no intention nor told when they bought game would be shared and accessible by any player that happens to know your characters name.