Quote Originally Posted by Fairecilla View Post
I have. Repeatedly. I've been taking a few screencaps as I'm not sure I'm comfortable with people openly asking for them and have been debating it over with my FC - https://imgur.com/a/aHAqf4l from yesterday for example.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm fine with groups being formed based on logs - but not with it being 'enforced' by elitists on pf.

Actually, what's everyone's thoughts on openly asking for logs in PF? Is it even against TOS?
So, parties like this generally aren't farm parties or clear parties that a casual player would be interested in joining. They're purpose-made parse parties, where people are attempting to increase their personal-best or compete on the leaderboards.

The reason they're instituting a percentile requirement is because they're looking to try to guarantee a fast kill-time, and need everyone in the party to be pushing high dps in order to accomplish that. It can be encounter dependent, but better kill-times generally add positive skew to your numbers.

In these types of cases it's usually(there are exceptions) not really 'elitism' driving it, because they have a genuine goal in mind that requires a certain level of throughput, and recruiting players below those thresholds would obstruct that goal. If you were putting together an Olympic running team, you probably wouldn't recruit a hobbyist runner that only goes for weekend jogs for example.

Elitism absolutely exists in this game, but is usually more represented by people who constantly look for ways to unreasonably undermine other people in order to elevate themselves, and reframe the genuine accomplishments of others as something beneath them or unimpressive. One instance that sticks in my memory was someone mocking / making fun of a player for having a "low orange" parse. (Orange means you're in the top 5% of runs logged on your job, and is a significant accomplishment for most players).