Quote Originally Posted by Gallus View Post
Not idiot, bad. My fault. Bad is still derogatory though. The point of the thread was that you don't go around calling bad to people. Seemed pretty obvious to me, but a disappointing amount of people seemed to be on the other side. Noticing a worrying trend here.
Still, thats a big difference - "bad" can be a neutral and true assessment of skill, while idiot is a clear personal attack.

And I'm sorry, but a tank who cant hold aggro is a bad tank and there is no sugarcoating that.
Personally I prefer to tell people how to fix them being bad without telling them that they are.

But please, what would you call a tank whos losing aggro on the Mist Dragon? Maybe not to their face, but as neutral assessment of their skill? How would you describe that tank to your friends? "Aaawww, I just had the cutestet paladin in The Burn! He was so afraid of the dragon that the healer got to tank it!"

"Bad" is not an insult and if you're only understanding it as derogatory term with no basis... oh dear... sometimes people are just "bad" at something. Maybe without being aware of it - which is a shame, because then they could improve in a lot of cases. Obviously, they cant and wont do that if no one tells them that they have room to improve.
We havent even been adovacting to tell people "You're really bad at your job", there are ways to express that without calling them bad - "Please read up a guide"; "You can really improve on playing your job" - but I bet those are mean aswell...