Originally Posted by
PraisetheSun
It is absolutely and blatantly wrong that you should not ever "abuse" your raiders in a high-pressure, high-level raiding environment. Ideally, this scolding should not have to be done in public, but sometimes even very good players will do very stupid things, or the entire raid will have hit a performance rut that they're struggling to get out of - and in some raid groups, the best way to get said player to stop doing stupid things/the raid group to collectively un-fuck themselves and play to their actual capabilities is to give them a wake-up call in the form of the hairdryer treatment.
Mind you, of course, that this does not mean producing an incoherent, expletive-laden tirade so much as it means making clear in no uncertain terms how unacceptable a performance is. The latter is entirely possible without resorting to the former.