Quote Originally Posted by Liam_Harper View Post
No, callouts towards you can actually net that player a ban, so pugs will tend to be silent. If you aren't being kicked, you're not doing terrible but there aren't many legal means to judge self-performance.
There's a difference between "Hey, I noticed you're using Aeolian Edge alone instead of comboing it, you'll do more damage if you combo into it" and "Wow, ninja, you don't even combo into that attack". One is clearly meant to be helpful, and the other is clearly antagonistic. I make this exact example because I had this exact thing happen in a Qitana run while leveling DRK. Ninja was just spamming Aeolian Edge, not comboing, not Hutoning or Suitoning. Bard was the first to speak up being directly antagonistic and demeaning towards the ninja, while me and WHM actually gave advice. By the end of the run, ninja was actually using trick attack (though huton was still a ways off) and was properly comboing. Bard was being a pi*sy jerkwad the entire time. Ninja eventually told us he only started playing the game a couple of weeks before and just didn't know quite how to play, only making it that far due to trusts.

Point is, tone matters. Context matters. You may think you're being helpful but you're not if you're going to be a demeaning a*shole about it. It muddies the waters of the discussion when you use the hyperbole of "being helpful gets you banned"; no, being an a*shole gets you banned.