FFXIV Biggest Disease....Parsing

[Dzian]

FFlogs and other sites should definitely be "Opt-In" not "Opt-Out". If they are a just a tool for self improvment then other peoples data shouldn't matter at all.

If Bill does a search for Gary and Gary hasnt registered on fflogs or opted in it should just say "This player isn't registered" instead of a "This player is hiding their data" There's a big difference between those two messages.

Personally I hid my data years ago (around Thordans Reign iirc) and tend not to care less. The only way to ensure any data on there is accurate is to upload everything you do yourself and well it's just easier to hide yourself.
There are situations on logs for example where there are 3 uploaded parses on an ex primal content I've cleared and smashed 55-60 times. The average of those 3 was rather low but by no means an accurate. My average performance was significantly better than those 3 runs that got uploaded but in order to show that I'd have to upload 55-60 parses and I just dont care that much.
However 3 parses. That's maybe 5% of my time in that piece of content.. It's a million miles from being accurate / usable data.

Should definitely be an "Opt-in" basis though. If you havent registered or chosen to make your data visible then it should be hidden from searches or perhaps even completely anonymised..
like if you look at someone elses uploaded parse from a party you were in your name would be replaced with just dragoon or whatever job you were on.

If they are just "a self improvement tool" then other peoples data being hidden wouldn't impact that in anyway..