Mediocrity should NOT be the standard for players in any content.

[Valic]

That's false. You can be grey and not being carried, doing what is expected of you. Because the pretty colors on fflogs are percentage based theyre will always be grey people, no matter how skilled the community as become. If everyone without exception become super good at the game, and deal a bare minimum of 15k dps while the the best ones does 17k, are you really gonna say "booooo boooo how can you deal only 15k ? Are you only auto attacking ? Please go learn your rotation and what a 1-2-3 combo is !" ?

There is a difference between a grey parser who do know his rotation, is doing mechanics correctly, but can not have a high ranking because he has not the best stuff available on this job yet, and a grey parser who only spam jolt 2 as a red mage. And i am not even talking of cases where you get low parses because the healers keep dying or dpsing too much, getting other players killed in the process, or the other team members fleeing you and letting you die when you get a stack marker.

Dont look only at the pretty colors, after all one of the argument in favor of fflogs is supposed to be "but people dont look only at that ! They are analyzing extensively what did happen in a fight before judging you !".

THIS.

Parse should also not be the identifier for who does what well. There's also the fact that not everyone who has a parse, are people who actively parse. There's plenty of people out there that may be doing better than most and hey, no one will ever know \o/