Question about FFLogs

[ZoLMiTRiPTaN]

You can easily add “flogs-hidden” (without the quotes) to your Lodestone profile to opt out without having to create an account on the website. However, you may end up blacklisted by PF groups and statics for doing so.

Personally, I don’t mind being parsed by someone else and having my data uploaded. You don’t need a parser to tell when someone isn’t playing well or contributing to DPS. I still don’t quite understand why people hide things like their achievements on Lodestone or their parses. Anyway, anyone that uses parsing or fflogs to harass other players is doing it wrong.

[Liam_Harper]

You can easily add “flogs-hidden” (without the quotes) to your Lodestone profile to opt out without having to create an account on the website. However, you may end up blacklisted by PF groups and statics for doing so.

Note this only counts for Savage and Ultimate, the hardest content in the game. As a new or casual player you won't be blacklisted by anyone for hiding your logs.

[HakaseNyan]

You can easily add “flogs-hidden” (without the quotes) to your Lodestone profile to opt out without having to create an account on the website. However, you may end up blacklisted by PF groups and statics for doing so.

I've no horse in this parsing race, but services, in which you don't voluntarily participate in, should be opt-in. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense having to opt-out of something you don't use. This opt-out situation has lead to a level of harassment with a neat little veil draped over it, and that makes it all the more obvious something is wrong with it.

[Solaires]

Lets be real. FFLogs was always great especially for newer players. They generally pair this with FF Analysis and Analysis will help tell the player the faults they had. The real issue is that people using parsers tend to harass people and they didn't want that. Yoshi stated in live letters back then that parsers were still illegal programs to the game but noted it as a grey zone and would look the other way if not used to harass other players.

This is the same back in HW for them implementing a lot of other things to reduce toxicity in the community like removing chat in the 4 v 4 PvP which people barely played til Feast and it was actually not even that toxic. The toxicity mostly came around with raiders and Mentors in the Novice Network. More modernly though it seems the toxicity has died down quite a bit. Well asides these healers that assume they're above you and tend to make a lot of toxicity in parties. I've done my share of kicking these toxic pests from the party over the person who made a mistake. LoL. Who wants angry healer noises. Just kick and get rid of that pest. LoL.

...Maybe the fuel was a horrible person who ran in the US at the time and everyone seemed to get aggressively toxic in general. LoL. Either way it was a huge thing for SE to promote friendly gameplay and support to new players at the time.