getting kicked from end game pfs as soon as I join?

[Melichoir]

The easy fix would be make fflogs opt in not out.

as for the groups performance and who owns the data then i think that comes down to how the data is presented. I mean the new GDPR privacy thing basically says you cant hold or use any data that can be identifiable without express consent of the individual being identified..

that said what you could do is upload your parses if you want but any players who hadn't opted in or consented to fflogs would have to be anonymised so anyone looking at that particular parse would just see monk or dragoon. and while they could see how that monk or dragoon performed they wouldnt be able to identify them without consent...

thing is doing this would eliminate a ton of the negative stigma around logs and parsers in general.

I would hazard that making it opt in by choice would actually break algorithms and skew the ranking system on FFLOGS. For things like the logs to work (or any data driven thing to work), the more data you put into it, the better typically.

if fflogs didnt have tens of thousands of parses for everything from extreme primals to normal mode raids to expert roulette dungeons i might agree with you.

People upload logs for personal bests and things, but it also catches up other people's stuff. Broadly, most raiding groups look specifically at things like Savage, and are more concerned with improvement over time. The exception being if your damage output is so drastically low that it begs the question of what are you doing (doing 1k dps at a DRG, for example, in O9S). If your dps looks decent, most raid groups will trial you.