The issue nobody wants to address

[Archaell]

But it doesn't matter, if I don't want to participate in parsing, I should not be forced to do so.

So let's say that parsing would be optional. How would you feel about the other players booting you out of the group for hiding your data? You are the one who decided to not participate. They would note that you do not want to participate.

Personally I see parser as an order for 100 cakes. There are four workers so every single one should make 25 cakes. Of course some get the job done faster so it can be 20-30-25-25 cakes per person. It isn't entirely fair, but it is acceptable. What isn't acceptable tho is when somebody decides to bake only 10 cakes. In that cases the other bakers deserve to know what was the reason that they had to bake more than just 25.

[dank1]

So let's say that parsing would be optional. How would you feel about the other players booting you out of the group for hiding your data? You are the one who decided to not participate. They would note that you do not want to participate.

Personally I see parser as an order for 100 cakes. There are four workers so every single one should make 25 cakes. Of course some get the job done faster so it can be 20-30-25-25 cakes per person. It isn't entirely fair, but it is acceptable. What isn't acceptable tho is when somebody decides to bake only 10 cakes. In that cases the other bakers deserve to know what was the reason that they had to bake more than just 25.

That's a great comparison, unfortunately those who are opposed to parsers will counter that with "its just a game not your job though!!"

So I guess to put this as simple as possible, you and a group of 3 or 7 other people attempt to slay this magical beast in an online fantasy setting and you do 50% of said beast's life in terms of damage, now another player (who DOES NOT have a disability or any other life situation that would impair his ability to slay said beast) only did 10% of that beast's life, both of these adventurers have the same tier of equipment and let's say they're even the same class for simplicity's sake, wouldn't you want to know why you had to do more damage than the other adventurer? Shouldn't you also have a right to remove said player from your group if they refused to cooperate?