Quote Originally Posted by Xlantaa View Post
The only way to reduce to minimum the parse impact is making the abuse (abuse in ANY possible way, that includes kick or discrimination on a player for underperfoming) punishable:

Any party which kick form a duty (ANY DUTY) because numbers are not good for them (ANY number, under-performing or not).
Any party who deliberately discriminate in PF, prohibiting player form join if not enough DPS for them, even if that player can complete the duty.
Any person who mock or harass a player because his numbers.
Any player who upload the data to a third party site (FFLogs type), specially if not have the party member consent.
Kicking someone from a PF group is not abuse. Let's get that out of the way right now. If someone as the leader of their PF decides they hate the glamour, race, name, or server of a person, they are in their right to kick that person. It may make them a jerk, or anything like that, but it is not against the rules and it is not abuse. Anyone can make a party finder group, so it is not like you are being directly excluded because you cannot join one person's party.

There are already parties that discriminate in PF, demanding high dps or consistent dps from other players. We don't even have an official parser in game yet people will still demand these things and kick anyone who doesn't meet their criteria.

Mocking and harassing people over numbers is already punishable and even if a parser becomes official it will still be punishable.

FFlogs will always realistically be a grey area regardless of how anyone feels about it.

My main issue with this post is that it implies kicking anyone for their DPS or for underperforming or holding the group back is "abuse," or as if it's morally wrong. Even today, people are kicked from party finder groups, duty finder groups, etc, for many other reasons that more or less qualify for the same thing. Not being able to dodge AoEs. Not being able to meet heal checks as a healer. Not properly managing or using cooldowns at all as tanks. Failing the same mechanic every time the user is given that mechanic, the list goes on. Parsing and damage numbers should not be excluded from this list, just because it bruises people's fragile egos. To take a hard stance that "no one should be kicked for their DPS numbers at any point," you are essentially arguing that no one should be kicked from any content period for any reason at all, because the person would feel bad about it. You cannot argue that someone is more justified in kicking someone for not meeting a heal check and then say that the same person can't kick someone for not meeting a DPS check. It's a literal contradiction.