SE's most difinitive statement yet on parsers

[Mcshiggs]

You took it out of context. His argument have nothing to do with them being against the ToS or not.

I don't care about your arguments with Gormogon, you said there were plenty of examples of the uses of parsers in this thread, I stated that it doesn't matter how compelling the argument for the parsers are, as long as they are against ToS, there is no reason good enough to use them.

[Dwill]

I don't care about your arguments with Gormogon, you said there were plenty of examples of the uses of parsers in this thread, I stated that it doesn't matter how compelling the argument for the parsers are, as long as they are against ToS, there is no reason good enough to use them.

Yet if no one says anything because they are against the ToS, that ruling will never change. If people show enough interest over time, while it's not a certainty, that ruling might actually change in the future. So it's better to speak about their benefits than to just stay silent because they are against the ToS.