It may not be insignificant, but it's still better than the massive range you see among players in SB. Next expansion, we're likely to end up seeing ranges as wide as 3k-10k. From a development standpoint, which range of DPS will the developers use as a good balancing point? The wider it gets in terms of actual numbers (percentage-wise may be seen as rather irrelevant in such balancing dilemmas), the harder it gets for the lower end of the population to catch up (or hide their performance even from people who don't parse, really).
Anyway, I'm also in the camp that thinks there's really more to this story. When you think about the actions the GMs took, it completely contradicts their 'no off-site/outside game evidence' policy. The only way OP would have been nailed is if the report was filed under 'harassment', as no other category fits. If this is indeed the full story, 10 days is huge for a simple harassment report based purely on parsing, I believe that's the maximum punishment short of an outright permaban. (Enforcement against parsing is mostly a he said/she said sort of thing on top of that - the only way this makes sense at all if we take the OP's words at face value is if the GM in question broke standard policy and accepted off-site evidence, which would be scary as hell because it would set precedent for certain trolls on these forums to get themselves uploaded on purpose and then ask the GMs to ban them afterwards.)
(It also says quite a lot about moderation practices when suspension length and exactly what they mean in terms of severity is common knowledge among the community.)



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