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    Rama Kagon
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    Balmung
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    Warrior Lv 80
    Quote Originally Posted by WeekendSoja View Post
    At this point the endgame community will continue to blacklist players who can't pull their weight in EX trials in fear that this person may join a PF farm of A5S and screw that up too.
    Which is ironically a kind of abuse (needlessly blacklisting people for personal reasons). Sure it's not as bad as, saying, swearing or offending someone but it's an abuse of a feature that its main purpose was to help someone avoiding people who potentially harass or offend someone, not to ignore people who do bad dps "because we only need pros to beat this ginarmous boss". Any feature that is used in ways against its original intent IS abuse afterall.

    And you kind of nailed it with a key word there: "Fear". I constantly see fear of abuse, fear toxicity, fear of harassment, while the truth is that "they are all in the game: you just don't notice it". We already have abusive players (housing exploits - get ready to run people!), we already have toxic people (those who won't allow people to join unless he/she's done this this and that), and we already have people harassing others (I was harassed for overpulling, but the tank wasn't pulling properly and instead blamed me. Plus it was AV)

    I do agree that parser could be a tool to improve someone - as well as a tool to harass others - but I think that considering how many cases of harassments don't come from parser alone (actually it seems it's the least common cause of harassment), I still think that one day SE should let us give a try and see how it goes.

    Worst that happens? They remove it, anti-parsers will be happy, pro-parsers will use their own version. Everyone's happy. More or less.
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    Last edited by Voltyblast; 06-01-2016 at 03:53 AM.