Give me a legitimate reason to NOT have a LFD tool.

You must of missed it then:

X-server LFD isn't a panacea for the community issue. Never said it was. It is a tool for one thing. Getting quick groups and for that it does it's job well.

Community is created by people, not functionality. The reason I mention the lack of community is in response to the common phrase 'LFD ruins communities". In my case, even though LFD doesn't ruin communities in my experience, there is nothing to ruin.

As far as guild drama....see the little winky eye......

To translate....it does not do anything for community, pro or con.

Actually so you mean players that could be afk safe for 15 min in the start a dungeon was working intended?

Because all you're looking at is the time aspect. Don't get me wrong, I know there are plenty who just want to get it done and over with. But not everyone is "omg this is boring, I just want to click a button and be done with it" (Exaggeration, but hopefully you see the point)

Like leveling as an example. No matter how easy or difficult it is, there will always be people who hate leveling and only "have fun" at the end. And on the flip side, you will always have people who enjoy the journey more than the destination.

No that is actually also an assumption dont you know any people you can ask?
Or even use general on the planet you are on.
Those are avaible to you as it is now.

What you want is one button accept group invite while being AFK

No... they're not. I have a feeling that you don't understand what objective means.

I was pretty straight forward in explaining why they weren't objective reasons. If you want, I'll try and help you understand.

an unsupported claim is not an objective reason.
a false statement is not an objective reason.
an opinion is not an objective reason.

Absolutely agree. There will always be different 'appetites'. I just see the quick group/slower group question as clearly on the side of most wanting to get a group sooner than later is all.

I am not downplaying others play styles at all. Going back to the majority/minority bit I just think (opinion here guys, not fact) that the majority would rather spend their time running content and not putting a group together. That is why LFD has been popular and effective.

EDIT: That is also why you have seen a move away from large raid groups, like 40 in early wow, to smaller groups. it's easier and quicker to put together a smaller raid than a larger one.

Actually it's not. Some want it, some don't. Some don't care. It comes, the ones who wanted it use it. The ones in the middle see that grouping normally is more time consuming now, so they use it now too. Now the people who don't want to use it have a much longer time finding a group, some may even leave the game, even FURTHER increasing the time spent. And in many cases making it so they hardly ever get groups at all. So now they either go without doing anything with a group because it's so rare to get one now, or they use the Tool that they didn't want.

How is that optional? You're looking at the "you can just not use it" and saying optional, but it's more than that. Putting it in just flips the roles in your little explanation.

LOOK PEOPLE, you guys had your chance at "community building" and FAILED. It didn't work, and people are stuck in their fleets LFG when they shouldn't be. It's really as simple as that. Stop bringing up this notion of community in a WoW inspired game, it's just NOT HAPPENING.

Its true, it would be nice. Every game that has the ability has benefited from it. Granted, you can use /who to find people and ask them to help. The thing is, unless they know you, they probably want to have nothing to do with you and your Kaon under siege run...

im sure this has been said before, but here goes.

The reason I like the LFD tool, is because if it works right, it creates well rounded groups. (tank, healer, and 2 dps)

I sat in the Republic Fleet the other night on a new character for over 4o minutes trying to just get a group for Hammer Station. I put myself up on the LFG tool thing with a message saying I need a group for Hammer. Only one other person out of the 65 people on the fleet had flagged themselves for LFG. In my opinion this is just not working.

One thing that I hate is having to make my way over back to my ship, fly to the fleet, head down to the quest terminal area....and there is nobody down there. Well there went a good 10 minutes or so I could have used to quest more! (and therein lies the problem) Players find the flashpoints too much of a bother, so why do them.

Please Bioware, this is obviously something your customers want.