I believe 2 forums that shall go unnamed are chiefly responsible for cultivating this climate of antisocial behavior, one of which was also responsible for fomenting a toxic climate in FFXI. The people in these forums aggressively promote a cookie-cutter mentality in the name of "efficiency" and seem to be OK with people berating others from straying the slightest from this orthodoxy.

That other Bard had absolutely no right to go after this guy as long as thing were going well in the dungeon. As bad as this situation got, I can only imagine what things would look like if parsers were implemented.