Quote Originally Posted by Kenky View Post
Do you.. Do you think this attitude is helping your case? Even a little bit?
Let's take three hypothetical scenarios.

1. A party wipes. Someone pipes up, screaming obscenities at someone for doing low damage and posts logs.
2. Party wipes. Someone asks if the low damage player wants some pointers. Doesn't say how they know the damage was low, but asks if they can help anyway.
3. Party does a run. Someone in that party streams for friends. They forget to turn their EVIL ILLEGAL PARSER off. They say nothing, and don't spit negativity at any player at all, in game chat or on voice.

Which of these scenarios would you report? In the past, it sounded like the community would rightly report the first, probably not the second and why on earth the third?

The forums over the last week have given me the impression they'd happily, zealously report all three. Which suggests to me that harassment isn't what they dislike. It's facts. Math. Statistics. Numbers is what they hate, and by God you'd better not even SMELL like you're collecting them because not only do You Not Pay My Sub, but I'm going to keep my eagle eye on everyone else's sub like a nosy litigious old lady.

So let's have a new scenario.

4. A party wipes. Someone asks if they can give advice on how to do mechanics, since they saw a few missteps.

Why isn't this against the TOS? Sure it's not damage numbers. Which are freely available in the combat log, BTW. But you just saw someone's performance. You just analyzed it. In your eyes and your brain. You just...JUDGED someone for messing up. And worse still, you dared to call them out on it. Doing mechanics correctly is just as important as dealing damage, and both are performance metrics. One is just really easy to spot unaided.

Tell me how this is qualitatively different from reading their damage and making suggestions on that. Because I've already given my stance on the TOS-encouraged naked hypocrisy that toxic casuals revel in.