Things to think about before you call someone "Bad"

[Sigma-Astra]

You don't lie, you just don't go around calling bad to anyone. If it's a player who is part of your static you talk to them and politely tell them they are not pulling their weight, so you either give them a chance or kick them from your group. If it's a PF party, you might want to kick the person right away. If it's a random player in a dungeon and they are underperforming (a rather ambiguous term because what's underperforming for you might be playing ok for someone else but whatever) you either give them friendly advice or ignore them. Friendly advice isn't telling them they are bad. What are you even trying to accomplish by telling someone they are bad? At best you'll get a deserved spot in their blacklist.

And guess what happens when anyone gives another player constructive criticism about their skill level? We get called toxic, elitist, or worse names sometimes.

You can't have it both ways sometimes and ignoring them serves nothing but allowing the problem to continue for some other poor, unfortunate soul.

If people could learn to actually take constructive and friendly advice, and not immediately whine or cry foul when someone else thinks they're being detrimental towards the party, we wouldn't have this coddling and hand holding problem that we do now.

If I see another person being detrimental and haphazard at playing their main class, I can and will call you out for playing poorly if it's a class that I'm fairly knowledgeable in at the very least, and tell you why and what you need to improve on. However, there is nothing entirely wrong with calling someone outright as a "bad player". It's not a harsh insult and people need to stop treating the word "bad" as a harsh, derogatory insult. I was called a bad BLM a few times when I first started playing that game, I sucked it up, and used that as motivation to get better. It's right that we should always use respectful and polite language, but people also need to stop expecting things to be sugarcoated like a bowl of frosted flakes. There is absolutely nothing disrespectful about the word "bad". I'm bad at cooking, it's not an insult when people say that I'm bad at it. It's the truth. It's more of an insult when they start placing swear words and other flames into the sentence in place of "bad".

People need to learn to deal with the truth.

If they want to blacklist someone for telling the truth, then maybe they should run content with their friends where they can be safe in that little bubble of their's and believe everything is fine and dandy on their own time.

If you don't like constructive criticism, then run with people who don't care how poorly you do.