So, can we just ban damage meters already.

[Forever_Learning]

No. The tanks that don’t utilize their cooldowns are bad players.

Unfortunately, people are bad.

Simple: they are incompetent as players. Similar to healers that tunnel vision on DPS or DPS that tunnel vision and ignore mechanics.

Simply saying they are bad players is a shallow and insufficient response.

A better question is why are they bad players that are so focused on their DPS

The common denominator to all of these players is their over focus on DPS, why?

I argue it's due to the influence of things like parses, because people want to rank, and they want to beat others, and where they place on FFlogs.

Am I saying something controversial if I say that people will even alter how a particular fight is done in order to increase their ranking on FFlogs?

It trickles down, it trickles down to the average player that just has a parse and feel satisfied they are the top DPS in their particular group.

I understand how this mentality develops because I had it when I played a Mage in WoW, and understood how the parser was impacting me.

I don't seriously believe I'm the only person to have experienced the psychological impact of the parser, which is why many choose to avoid them outright.

Context in each report and reason for kicking matters here. Why should someone take the risk at "offending" another player and receive a warning on their account when it's very easy to just dismiss that player instead for "gameplay differences?" Sure, they might get reported for the kick regardless, but at that point, the reason for the kick is validated and within the tos.

All I'm saying is people have a right to criticize in a polite way, they have the right to kick, and they have the right to report when they feel they have been harassed. People are going to be people, as someone earlier said, and it's up to the GM to decide how to handle each case, and more generally, how strongly they want to force it.