SE's most difinitive statement yet on parsers

[Appleh4x]

"2.1 Cheating and Botting. You may not create or use any unauthorized cheats, bots, automation software, hacks, mods or any other unauthorized software or hardware designed to modify the Game and gameplay. In addition, you may not take advantage of game system bugs and exploits during gameplay."
Parsers are not cheats, bots, automation software, hacks or mods and they don't modify the game or gameplay. They work outside of the game to sort data relating to damage and present it in an easy to read format.

[AzakaTonnerre]

"2.1 Cheating and Botting... mods or any other unauthorized software or hardware designed to modify the Game and gameplay...

Parsers are not cheats, bots, automation software, hacks or mods and they don't modify the game or gameplay. They work outside of the game to sort data relating to damage and present it in an easy to read format.

And yet there they are listed in the ToA section referred as "Cheating or Botting" (2.1) nullifying your point of view in SE's mind. While I personally don't care if people use them or not, using a quote that invalidates your point before you even make it (at least in the eyes of the people running the game) kind of seems odd doesn't it?

[Appleh4x]

And yet there they are listed in the ToA section referred as "Cheating or Botting" (2.1) nullifying your point of view in SE's mind. While I personally don't care if people use them or not, using a quote that invalidates your point before you even make it (at least in the eyes of the people running the game) kind of seems odd doesn't it?

Actually they are just listed as third party software, they were previously just in a grey area. I also didn't bring that line up, the poster above me had and I just quoted him without using the quote function so I wouldnt have to go back and edit the post to fit the char limit