fflogs and privacy

[SweetestLily]

In order for fflogs to efficiently work as intended, sadly it cannot be an opt in thing. They need to scan every single person in the party of the person who is uploading that log because they need to verify that they all played legitimately. They have a system to detect if anyone used certain cheats to gain damage advantages and if a single person in that party did, everyone benefited from that so they will invalidate the entire log. They need to know how much RDPS ppl gained from others from their raid buffs etc. There is no way they just can't scan everyone in the party's numbers. There's a reason they do things the way they do and it isn't to harm anyone. Don't blame the website. It's simply supposed to be a tool for ppl who want to improve and push themselves further, blame the brainrotted ppl who use the tool for their clownery. Also, removing fflogs would kill the raid scene, and SE is well aware of this fact so it's not going anywhere. It's been here since the beginning and it will be til the day the game shuts down.

[BokoToloko]

In order for fflogs to efficiently work as intended, sadly it cannot be an opt in thing. They need to scan every single person in the party of the person who is uploading that log because they need to verify that they all played legitimately. They have a system to detect if anyone used certain cheats to gain damage advantages and if a single person in that party did, everyone benefited from that so they will invalidate the entire log. They need to know how much RDPS ppl gained from others from their raid buffs etc. There is no way they just can't scan everyone in the party's numbers. There's a reason they do things the way they do and it isn't to harm anyone. Don't blame the website. It's simply supposed to be a tool for ppl who want to improve and push themselves further, blame the brainrotted ppl who use the tool for their clownery. Also, removing fflogs would kill the raid scene, and SE is well aware of this fact so it's not going anywhere. It's been here since the beginning and it will be til the day the game shuts down.

How does any of the encounter data compilation interfere from setting the character profiles private by default? If anything, it could make a stronger incentive to use the data if you needed to log in to access all your logged encounters, both the encounters logged by you or by others and decide whether you want to make it public or not. It's not so much wanting fflogs to selectively choose the data they compile as much as it is them refraining from disclosing said data or the aggregated information about each individual player to the general public without said players consent or knowledge. And there could be degrees upon which said privacy can be implemented, like keeping most of the site as is with the sole exception that character pages are private by default, meaning the logs they appear in can still be seen but you can't see the character data across encounters, content or expansions unless they decide to make that public.

And it's fflogs that we have to turn to because they're the ones with actual capacity and responsibility to prevent misuse of their tool. It's a waste of time to demand accountability from the party at fault because they're the first ones that want to maintain the status quo and, thus, the least willing to change something about it.