People advertising they're running Parsers

[LittleImp]

not really

They're actually not wrong.

Most groups you apply to for serious content will immediately look at your FFLogs, as it's seen as a resume of both your demonstrated clears and a metric of your ability. There's arguments as to whether or not DPS is useful metric, but I can emphatically tell you that FFLogs is a significant part of raiding culture in this game and is a huge factor in public perception of the players within that culture. Often people with hidden logs are red-flagged, but not everyone with hidden logs is bad. I know someone in the top 1% of their job who hides their logs.

[Rinhi]

They're actually not wrong.

Most groups you apply to for serious content will immediately look at your FFLogs, as it's seen as a resume of both your demonstrated clears and a metric of your ability. There's arguments as to whether or not DPS is useful metric, but I can emphatically tell you that FFLogs is a significant part of raiding culture in this game and is a huge factor in public perception of the players within that culture. Often people with hidden logs are red-flagged, but not everyone with hidden logs is bad. I know someone in the top 1% of their job who hides their logs.

they're not wrong, but they're also not correct, as you've said yourself
one of my friends is a god gamer yet their logs are completely hidden, simple because they don't want to be listed on that website
otherwise I'm not disagreeing with your post in any way, since you're correct!