Mentor minimum requirement is too low / needs adjustment

[JunseiKei]

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You've been incredibly lucky. I've seen this stuff long before the mentor system was even talked about. Older image used, but I've seen this kind of exchange many times (tank left before the "just helping" line came out). I wouldn't say we were acting negatively at all.



The pendulum swings both ways. There are bad mentors as well as people that can't take advice.

The term "abuse" entails misuse of something. While many people find it annoying, using the MB for undercutting is not abuse, nor are selling runs on PF anymore than using it to look for new members to raid. RMTs are another story altogether. We might have certain things annoying (like undercutting), but that does not mean it is abuse. Legit abuse are things like trading someone to stop a teleport, which is then report-able. It's really no coincidence that actual abused things are report-able.

If the leave negative feedback option was implemented and was automated, the system would be abused. People will report out of spite; people don't like being corrected. Especially when things are subjective; with text, it's hard to tell if it's someone's typing style or if they are honestly being rude. Being blunt doesn't deserve a negative feedback. I've told plenty of white mages (and other healers, but WHM players takes first place) complaining about tanks not letting them regen MP between pulls or bards not singing Mage's Ballad 24/7. I've told them about their best friend, Shroud of Saints, and what the refresh status does and that every pull does not need Medica II up, especially if no one but the tank is taking damage. I've been met with majority of "omg stfu and don't tell me how to play."

Last time I had this happen was a little before Dun Scaith came out while running Mhach. WHM was complaining the bard wasn't playing Mage's Ballad the whole time and I told them playing that cuts into their DPS and explained they have Assize and Shroud for MP (which I had noted they had not used Shroud once up until that point). Oddly enough, it was their scholar co-healer that, apparently, got triggered and started to berate me. That WHM and I actually started talking and I exchanged tips with them. They were thankful (one of the few times! :>) while their scholar told me to shut up and uninstall and tried to vote kick me multiple times (thank god for mostly premade with friends. It was only the healers that weren't in the premade and since I did end up getting a commendation, I don't think it was the WHM trying to kick me).

If the system wasn't automated, it'd mean it'd have to be directed to SE workers (like GMs/ customer service representatives) and to be fair, they have more important things to handle.