The Real Problem with Parsers

[Tsilyi]

I'm still waiting for the day that any person who's ever argued against a parser and then took time out of their day to belittle me about my stance on it, to come up with a legitimate reason why a PERSONAL PARSER shouldn't be implemented.

I invite every one of you against parsers to come up with an argument. The main argument we always come back to is that it can be used as harassment. Well you can't be harassed for something no one else can see. I want to know my numbers. I couldn't care less about yours until it becomes detrimental to the groups success. There's no argument that I can think of where me knowing my own numbers at any given time would be bad.

I'm not for or against the widespread use of parsers and cannot conform or deny whether I use them myself on certain content but I can give you an easy argument against personal parsers. I'm not sure why you think personal parsers are the answer because the argument against them is so simple: There is NO SUCH THING. A personal parser stop being personal the moment it is introduced into the game. Want to know how? "send us a SS of your parse or kick" or the like. Yes, you can do this on PS4 at the very least using a screenshot sent to another PS4 user.

So as soon as any kind of parser is introduced into the game they can and will be abused in negative ways. I play on PC so it doesn't matter at all to me, but yes. An easy argument can be made to dismantle the "personal parser" idea, but like I said, I don't care either way.