Quote Originally Posted by bswpayton View Post
So to just outright say that people get commendations for just random reasons is a lie
Did you really just call me a liar lol

People in your very own thread have said they have given people commendations for stuff OTHER than skill/performance; which in the end is random subjective reasons.

I myself have given players commendations for being "nice people" (even if they weren't very skilled).

I've also given commendations to new players simply because they were new and listened to advice even if they were pretty bad at the game at that point (I mean they are new so I don't care they are really bad, but they obviously shouldn't take the commendation I gave them as a sign they are good at the game...seriously I hope not...I gave it as encouragement to keep playing and keep learning)

I personally know it isn't a lie whether you believe me or not since I'VE DONE IT. Multiple times. If you can somehow magically prove I am lying about the commendations I've given out then feel free to try.

I have even given people commendations on my alts just to get the challenge log EXP and no other reason or about their performance at all, it's probably a bad habit but it's just commendations in a game and I wanted my EXP so I toss it at whoever I can at the end of the dungeon.

If you do a dungeon/raid and you leave at the end and get a commendation...great, but...how do you know why they gave it to you? That's the whole point, you don't.

So you cannot judge your performance in that run afterwards properly since the commendation you got might be for a reason other than your skill/performance. You can't just assume "Oh I got a commendation I must have played my role well"...because the person who commended you might have just done it cause they liked your glamour or just to get challenge log EXP and in truth you actually were not very good or even kinda bad at you role.

Again people might give commendations to players they "think" did well at their role, but in truth they don't even have the credentials that make their praise worth taking to heart. Just like the medical student example I gave you. Did you actually read it? It clearly illustrates why you can't always blindly accept other people praising you since you don't know if they are qualified to give you constructive feedback or not about your skill at a particular task.

If it is a task they do not know how to do themselves or a task they have no experience with or knowledge about then how would they be qualified to tell you that you did well? People do praise people all the time just to be nice to others. You are supposed to understand the difference between "constructive feedback from someone more knowledgeable than you that you should take to heart" and someone who is "just being nice and supportive of your efforts despite not knowing whether you did something properly or not"

Would an in-game example make sense to you??

Example: A healer gives a tank a commendation at the end of a dungeon, but this healer has never played tank and doesn't know the game well enough to realize that tank actually never used any defensive cooldowns at all during the run. Is that tank doing a good job at his role? Most would say not since tanking is holding aggro AND mitigating damage. He got a commendation though from the healer anyway...hopefully he doesn't assume he did good because it would be false.

The healer commended him because he "thought" (subjective) that the tank did good. In reality the tank didn't use any of his cooldowns the whole dungeon. So this tank should not accept this praise because it is from someone who doesn't have enough knowledge to give him correct feedback. Since it is a random DF PUG and you see you get a commendation after you exit and it also doesn't tell you who gave it to you...then it isn't normally feasible to try to find them and ask them why they gave it to you.

You cannot use commendations to judge your skill/performance in a piece of content because of all this.

But yeah, if you gonna call people liars then I guess I'm done. You don't want to listen to reason and I guess If you wanna just keep swimming in ignorance I suppose it is your choice to do so.