Originally Posted by
Ekis
In case you haven't caught on, "decorations" may not equal skill but they highly indicate it. Without an ability to see their performance from either logs or actually bringing them in beforehand, you may have two players that may be equally skilled. One has greens and blues, and the other has gear already from the raid instance. You mean to tell me, you're going to give priority to the guy who has less "decorations"?
Yes it is, this is purely semantics. You can call it decorations, gear, badges of honor, cookies, doesn't take away from the achievement of obtaining them when relevant. In fact, it's many a player's desire to complete that relevant content to show off those "decorations".