DPS display could easily be solved with a system already in game.

[Jamein]

All you are trying to do is brush a counter - view aside with a specific requirement that has no significance on the discussion at hand.

I am dismissing your argument for one reason and one reason alone. You are making assumptions based on a different game, and a different community. Just like everyone else within this thread is.
I also gave you a specific example of how a method of measuring someones level of experience was used in one game, but is different in this game. I'm not simply brushing you off, I am giving you examples to prove why your argument falls flat. Meanwhile you've said nothing more than, 'but this is what used to happen'. I'm all for debate if you've got something more relevant to the conversation.

I understand that there will more than likely be a very small minority who abuse the parsing data and ask for absurd numbers for groups, but those people are the ones you avoid in PF anyway because they also ask for ilvl 130 for titan ex and scream '1 mistake = kick'. Not everyone is perfect, but are we to keep a useful and informative tool away from the rest of the playerbase because a small amount of players take it too far?

I am basing my opinion on the experiences I have had in THIS game, with THIS community.

By your logic I should stay away from seafood as this one time I ate some salmon and my insides burned for a week, therefore all salmon is bad and will make me relive those horrific days of toilet websurfing and ring sting.

The past is the past, you can learn from it, but it doesn't mean everything plays out exactly the same. Different time, different community different game. Leave your bias at the door and focus on how that information is being used right now, not how you think it might be used because this one time someone said you suck back in 2001.