Quote Originally Posted by Tehmon View Post
This already happens. There is an optimal way of playing the braindead content without the presence of parsing and damage meters, and people get frustrated by beginners and incompetent players in casual content. See their complaints in the Tales from Duty Finder which has 200+ pages of posts.

I don't think it'd be much different whether we had such meters or not, as the culture of hyper-optimizing casual content already exists.
You don't think it would be different if the major thing holding them back from raging at new players in game was removed?
We can move the goalposts all we want about "But harassment would still be against TOS" like somehow the TOS is some magical thing that prevents players from doing anything listed, but the fact is the major thing preventing that now is the hardline stance on bringing up numbers for another player in game is a ban. Without that hardline stance it would shift to become a debate about how polite you were when you told that sprout they were shit, and does it really constitute harassment. Fact is that having a hard stance on no plugins, no mods, and no parsers sidesteps a whole lot of internet debatelord arguments about whether harassment was intended or not and just stops it in its tracks. It works incredibly well, and if it's not broken there's no reason to fix it.