Shortage of tanks a myth - thoughts?

[nyttyn]

I think it just boils down to a lot of people both not wanting that much responsibility thrust upon them, and being adverse to conflict. The second of which leads them to allow obnoxious party members to kinda walk all over them.

To all would-be tanks, or tanks who are harassed in the DF, I say to you this - remember that you're the hardest role to replace, and if your party members want to give you shit or pull at a rate you yourself are uncomfortable with (within the bounds of reason, obviously if you're only pulling once every two minutes that is way too slow), remind them gently but firmly of the queue time that they will have to go through if they keep it up. That tends to shut people up - followed by voting for a dismiss if need be, and if things are truly dire (which i find extremely rare), simply bowing out (granted, this last one is not a option for people who don't have the time in the day to tank a half hour leave penalty, but there does come a point where you have to ask yourself if you'd be actually enjoying yourself doing something else instead of sitting through a miserable experience).