Quote Originally Posted by kazeandi View Post
let's not forget, those "damn dds", the "lazy healer" and the "shitty tank" are all people, not bots.
Wanting to grant benefit of the doubt, along with having some capacity for empathy, is what stops me from creating drama for people who are making my experience worse. In some cases they can't help it or don't know better, and I'm willing to accept that I usually won't have tip-top runs with random groups if that means that others are able to enjoy and help support the game.

On the other hand, if that lazy healer or shitty tank is making it so that arguably no one is able to do what they want to do (i.e. clear the objective), I am all for putting in a constructive word and for trying to spread information that could help more players perform better.

I agree that it's important not to lose sight of the fact that players are (usually) people, but I also resist tipping towards the opposite extreme of rampant entitlement. Just as with legal freedoms IRL, I believe that each player's expectation to play their own way, free of criticism, with their own subscription money starts to be impacted as soon as it crosses the line into affecting the experiences of others.