Pro-skippers, politeness will get you further

I rest my case.

I rest my case.

I've never failed to vote off someone because they're holding up the group, so from my experience majority do not condone this behaviour. It is their right to watch the story, on THEIR time, not at at the expense of others. Therefore, if you want to watch the story, stick to Story Mode.

Pay attention very carefully. I know this concept is hard to understand. The DEFAULT option in a flashpoint is to play through the cutscenes. This is clearly indicated by Bioware since they did not include an option to automatically bypass all cutscenes. Even if you spaebar, you are still required to interact to advance. The default option is NOT spacebar. I don't have to press a special key that says "yes I want to see the scene". That makes this option baseline. Standard. Default.

What that means is you have no ground to stand on when it comes to "you are wasting everyone's time". Your time is equally valuable. Your time is not more valuable, and is not being wasted. By default, you are watching the cutscene and would be spending that time anyway. You should only queue with the understanding that by default, you are sitting through all of the content for however long it may take. Spacebar is the exception, not the rule. If you want to spacebar, good for you. But have no expectations or assumptions that everyone agrees with you. Again, if someone wants to watch the scene and you don't, they are still entitled, not you. If you don't like it, unfortunately that's too bad. Learn to suck it up and deal, or create a run explicitly defined as a spacebar run.

The default in Groupfinder for all Guardians is TANK and DPS. The default in Groupfinder for all Commandos is HEAL and DPS.

Does that mean that all Guardians and Commandos should always leave those defaults when they queue?

Defaults are defaults and essentially meaningless.

Pay attention very carefully. I know this concept is hard to understand. The DEFAULT option in a flashpoint is to play through the cutscenes. This is clearly indicated by Bioware since they did not include an option to automatically bypass all cutscenes. Even if you spaebar, you are still required to interact to advance. The default option is NOT spacebar. I don't have to press a special key that says "yes I want to see the scene". That makes this option baseline. Standard. Default.

What that means is you have no ground to stand on when it comes to "you are wasting everyone's time". Your time is equally valuable. Your time is not more valuable, and is not being wasted. By default, you are watching the cutscene and would be spending that time anyway. You should only queue with the understanding that by default, you are sitting through all of the content for however long it may take. Spacebar is the exception, not the rule. If you want to spacebar, good for you. But have no expectations or assumptions that everyone agrees with you. Again, if someone wants to watch the scene and you don't, they are still entitled, not you. If you don't like it, unfortunately that's too bad. Learn to suck it up and deal, or create a run explicitly defined as a spacebar run.

The default in Groupfinder for all Guardians is TANK and DPS. The default in Groupfinder for all Commandos is HEAL and DPS.

Does that mean that all Guardians and Commandos should always leave those defaults when they queue?

Defaults are defaults and essentially meaningless.

If you want to listen to to the story, then do it in Story Mode, that's what it's for. If you're holding up my HM because you're refusing to spacebar, I'll boot your *** in a heartbeat. My time is precious, not to be wasted on waiting for every new noob who stepped into Hard Mode without ever even doing Story Mode. They should just disable cinematics in Hard/Nightmare modes.