Hmm Now I see how BG do all the content first... They don't play it, from your app,

]If we asked you to use a 3rd party tool, would you do it? Why or why not?
While I admit this can mean parsers, fraps etc, I see questions like this as "If we asked are you willing to bot/hack/cheat" Seems to me that they want members to setup bots or hacks for their epeen first kill videos to take human error out of the equation. To alleviate this view you should say "if asked are you willing to use parsers, fraps etc" (also keeping in mind to get a video worth using with fraps you have to either steal it or pay for it, and why should I have to pay to join a linkshell?) This shows you are not into hacking the game, just gathering information to learn how to improve.

Sticking to your applications for now here is another few questions and what it looks like from the outside.

Link any relevant xivpads gearsets, BGParser logs, and screenshots or fraps of gameplay footage
Whats wrong with the good old "do you have any notable gear?" why do I need to, again pay to fraps a full raid or primal to join, why should I have to link to the gear, you do trials this is what trials are for, to see if people lied and to see if they are good players, that makes this question completely redundant.

What steps do you personally take to enhance your raid performance and the overall raid's performance?
I do my job to the best of my ability, and attempt to learn on the fly, would that be enough? what else can you say, except how you had to quickly grab hate after the tank died, wow it was close but because of this we won, kind of thing?

What do you expect from BG and what can we expect from you?
What can you expect from me, hmmm to do the best I can, what else can I offer, but ohhh that means I'm not a stellar player so DENIED!!!!

Also I would change your DRG Jenga tower to BRD/BLM because thats all you ever use (never seen a BG vid using anything else)

Your about page is the most elitist I have seen, a few quotes for you.

We are a Gaming Community for stellar players who want to commit to an intense endgame experience
So unless I am a "stellar player" I can't join.

To be considered for a raid spot your "button pushing" skills must be exceptional.
So again unless I am exceptional in every way I cannot join.

You did say its outdated, but even this comment shows you don't care about your LS, you are knowingly turning people off, and its not changed, it should have been changed as soon as possible, if you really care about your LS.

Also using a similar name as an FFXI LS you will get the rep of that LS, which is elitist, full of assholes, full of people who use members for their own benefit.

Finally using a public forum for apps is not the way to go, why allow people to edit their applications, you could see a linkshell as similar to a job, in that while you are playing the game, you should apply to a linkshell with the long term in mind, similar to a job, could I go to someone I applied to and say, "oh can I have my app back, I need to change something" no so why should be be allowed for BG, there is no need, you just want to publicly humiliate people with the huge DENIED stamp, on all but one of these apps.

TLDR, your whole site reeks of elitist behavior, your application seems like its condoning bots/hacks and you will turn down and (by the evidence I can see) you have turned down most apps, so yes you are very elitist.

I will however say, applications for popular linkshells (we can't deny that, despite the elitist behavior, BG is popular) in FFXIV we need applications due to the linkshell cap.