This is why this game should'nt get a parse

[Jijifli]

I've seen the argument pop up plenty where people want to be able to judge their own performance, and their performance alone via parsing software and guess what, I'm not denying anyone that ability by hiding my logs. What I am doing is denying them the ability to make a erroneous assumption about my ability to play, just because of one bad log that got uploaded without my consent

Yes. You are right. You aren't stopping people from figuring out individual performance by blocking your own information. But when you decide to make a statement like...

Think of it this way. How many toxic assholes are not being toxic just because they're afraid someone will report them for parsing?

then you're probably trying to tell me people try to nitpick your logs if you keep them open. Let me help a tad here with a real life example. Lets say you went into a hotel, okay? and the guy at the hotel sees you have a purse, and requests to check it. No ill intent, but to make sure you aren't carrying something bad. You begin to throw a hissy fit, going, "No it's not yours you don't have my consent!" then it gets fishy. That MAKES the guy think you're hiding something, even if you aren't, and then can just boot you out. If you just opened the purse for 5 seconds, and he saw nothing bad, you'd get in.

That's what people check the logs for. They want to make sure that those joining a party marked for farming have players that know what they are doing and, if there's odd lowballs, why they are there. A parser can tell the leader that the fight you did terrible dps on also had terribly healers, and tanks losing threat. For example, if a MCH in O2S died to Evilsphere, a TANK BUSTER that instantly give of a reason why your dps might be low, because you're pulling theat off of terrible tanks. Hiding your logs also hides your good clears, which hides your ability to play well.