Mentors...please!

[Silver-Strider]

There are things that can be done.

What exactly would this accomplish other than limiting the number of mentors available to people with the time to grind out comms time and time again? After running the same content, week in and week out, people are just prone to exiting duties without receiving or giving out comms without so much as a "GG" nowadays that I really don't see this as a solution but rather just adding a grind to an already grindy system. How can you gauge a person that you interact with for ~20 minutes and determine, "This person is mentor material", especially when a run goes smoothly and there's nothing to discuss? 90% of the time, if comms are given at all, its usually defaulted to Tank/Healer unless someone did something absolutely amazing or the Tank/Healer were awful. Now, you want to add some arbitrary grind to mentor status to make it so that you have to constantly go out of your way to not only be an excellent player but also do something that people actually want to recommend you for mentorship every few months? That's not a solution, like at all.

People don't care about a random idiot being rude however they care when said idiot is supposed to be helpful and kind because of his mentor status. For example, if Yoshida says bad things about ff14 players and I say the same things it's not just the same problem.
There is a reason why this thread is about mentors and not about toxic players.

And yet how often do mentors get berated with the same tired excuse of "You don't pay my sub". I mean, providing advice and people totally blowing you off gets frustrating after awhile that you eventually become a bitter person. People have bad days and sometimes they snap. In relation to Yoshida, even if he said that FF14 players were morons, I wouldn't give 2 Fs about it because it doesn't affect me nor my enjoyment of the game. He starts screw with the game to an extent I no longer enjoy the game, then I just move on to another game. You get a meh mentor, you blacklist and move on. Takes more than a few negative words thrown my way to be bothered to such an extent that I feel the need to make a forum post about it.