An alternative to parsing?

[Shurrikhan]

If raiders would leave without being able to parse, that right there tells me they aren't all that great of players to begin with. If you NEED a third party tool, then perhaps you need to get better at the game. A parser is a crutch used to counter their lack of skill.

The tool does not benefit any given attempt, itself.

It does, however, inform for purposes of improvement. And with improvement comes culpability. When damage has been lost to mistakes or optimizations not yet made, the solution is in identifying the problems (who are particular players at particular events in the fight, not just players, and not just events).

If the majority of my party told me they refused to be parsed, my assumption would be simple: they wish to gag order any actual evidence by which to make progress, out of fear of being held accountable proportionate to their success or lack thereof. Sure, some of the information to measure success is already there, but it is generally insufficient to point out empirically areas of available improvement. If my team is selfish enough to deny the group that just so that they won't feel a small pang of guilt when they screw up their CDs or the like, that's a community not a community I'd want any part of. And so I'd leave, not because I'm not able to use a given tool, but because those I'd otherwise be running with demand that it is more important that we remain blinded than the group improves, presumably on the basis that one man's unwarranted guilt outweighs an entire group's potential for helpful analysis.

You may as well join a book club but refuse to hear any opinion varying from your own. Why would I want to run with anyone holding such a counter-intuitive mindset?

Edit: To be clear, I don't like being held accountable by an outlier any more than the next guy, or even having my prospects questioned or participation declined over past histories (if that should ever happen) that I may have since improved beyond. My every fflogs parse, for instance, are 100% from trap parties, uploaded without my even knowing, and average some 15% lower in percentile than my norms when my raid lead tosses them up temporarily to see how we match up over given pieces of the fights. But over the course of a fight, where it IS wholly relevant? What could possibly be the problem with being shown as performing poorly if you are performing poorly? It's not going to be taken as precedent for another fight with divergent circumstances; that information doesn't leave the instance, or likely even the pull. It's just pure, accurate feedback. So why not let it inform you so you can more quickly improve?