I don’t care for commendations and I very rarely commend others. But when I do I only do it based on their performance in duties, never based on glam.

A tank that can hold aggro, knows how to mitigate and how to interrupt the enemy, even uses groupwide shields or heals if need be? Commendation.

A healer who doesn’t solely focus on breaking their own dps records but focuses on the party’s HP bars, removes debuffs if possible, uses shields or barriers and actually heals in time so the DPS won’t go down and has to suffer under the weakness status for the next 1,5 minutes with a bunch of stats reduced by 25%? Commendation.

A DPS who avoids AoE fields, knows mechanics and his overall combos and uses his AoE attacks on mob groups instead of just pummeling one enemy with 1 1 1 1 while the other DPS has to take care of the rest of the mobs? The DPS is a RDM or SMN and rezzes also when the healer is in a pinch? Commendation.

I judge purely on these criteria and then decide whether a commendation is deserved or not.

Tbh, actually I wish there was a button which let me down vote their already received commendations for showing poor performance.

No guts, no glory! No pain, no gain!