Quote Originally Posted by Stormfur View Post
I understand. Because it is a group effort, I understand why someone would want to see your specific contribution in that specific fight. Unfortunately that's all they see and they very much do judge a book by its cover (or a parse by its color, in this case). You can't explain "well, I was down with the flu" or "we were still learning the fight at that point." or whatever. It doesn't tell the whole story or make up the whole picture of you as a player.

Of course, any time I bring this up, people ask "why are you against it? You must have something to hide!" But to those people I'd simply reply:

"Glass bathroom stalls."

Could you imagine glass bathroom stalls being installed in public restrooms? (mock outrage) What? You think that's crazy? Well why are you against it? You must have something to hide!

Just because you have nothing to hide doesn't mean you shouldn't want privacy. Maybe I don't want my specific contribution shared. That should be my prerogative. But hiding it immediately causes a reflex reaction of "you must be hiding it because you're bad."
I may be the crazy one here but I would gladly allow every log of everything I've ever been in be public to everyone ever than to be naked in front of strangers and using the restroom.

If you don't feel the same way... I mean congrats, that's some impressive self confidence.

But no, none of this is a rebuttal. You could be hiding perfectly respectable logs but in my experience people with hidden logs perform worse than people with open ones only showing grey. That is also the experience (it seems) of most other people who think to look at fflogs when bringing a random player into Savage. It might not be the case with you specifically, you may be really great, but when it's snap judgment time I'm not putting my money on a slim chance.