SE's most difinitive statement yet on parsers

[Krr]

That's basically all they can do.

Given that this thread is now an echo chamber for the irrational who can't handle being shown counter-evidence and instead want to engage in reactionary drivel, yeah, it's pretty pointless for anyone forward-thinking or capable of grasping material realities beyond their insane, made-up scenarios to post in it.

With that point in mind, I guess I've made a good argument for myself to go to bed, and keep an eye out for the player names of several people who've taken frighteningly abusive and manipulative mindsets toward other players in response to criticism of their play in case they transfer to my server or show up in my DF. I will play with seven parser-abusing outlaws willing to tell me how well I'm doing over seven blind fools who rage on a forum and hurl baseless moral insults over the crime that someone once called their DPS low.

If a player genuinely abuses you using one of these programs, you have the ability as granted by the TOS to call forth an investigation of their behaviors. Nobody here is taking that away from you, and many people advocate fight club rules to prevent this type of abuse from being common.

I have done nothing but educate players on the rules surrounding, official statements given, and real effects and technology used for parsers in this game to do their job, and even corrected several misconceptions about how they work and why you may not consider them ethical with the "pro parser" crowd. Others, however, have resorted to simply repeating ToS diatribes written by legal robots and the phrase "cheating".