The issue nobody wants to address

[Whiteroom]

I think you need to learn more about human nature. Those who will respond favorably in these situations will do so without the use of numbers from a parser. They are in the minority, and are already trying to do better, which is why they will overcome their pride and listen. Far more people will be mildly offended because you've used a parser to criticize them, eople do NOT like criticism, criticism makes people defensive, and they will typically ingore or spurn advice because their defensiveness and pride wont let them listen. Some will be more offended than others and some view offence as a good defence, and so will respond negatively. Another sizeable group will ignoreyou because they don't care, are too young to care, or are happy with the way they are, and trying to tell them otherwise will be perceived as bullying. This does not even cover players trolling the game.

In the end though, whether you realize this or not, you are in effect trying to impose your expectations on others and using a data mining tool to do so. A significant proportion of the people you'll meet will feel pressured by that; another word for that is bullied. In general people really do not like to feel that way.


I believe it has been shown, that parsers are inevitably used (by a minority of players) in ways that are far from constructive. This is unhelpful to the community, within a private, team envuronment suchas a static, such a tool may have a place, but in the general community, parsers are effectively pit player against player; do we really need to facilitate data based ganking of players?

Which is funny, because I feel the need too reflect your initial comment back at you.

But that aside, and I am a little tired of repeating the same thing over and over again. Why are you talking of critisism to me? What part of the numbers being avalible for all to see means one party is critisizing another. Actually that you even lead in with this means you didn't read or at the very least misunderstood the post.

Numbers being readily avalible to the party is not critisizing the party. They are what they are, people don't need you to point out if their numbers are lower if they are right there for them to see. So the whole critisizing (at least as far as you were responding to my post) thing is out the window.

For the millionth response to players abusing parsers, of course some players will, for everything added in game there will be some who abuse it. Hell, the other day I was watching people using emotes to make groping and sexually sugestive actions to people, something I consider worse by far than pointing out that someone is perfoming sub par, yet there are huge debates on the forums about removing emotes.
Parsers aren't what turn people into a-holes, they already are a-holes, a parser is a number they can put in their rants. Also, SE adding a parser doesn't mean in any way they are condoning people abusing others with it. You can still report people you realise. Sorry if I seem curt, but every argument against parsers seems to get regurgitated by a new person every couple of pages.