Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
No, I play for fun, not for measuring my performances.
Why do the two have to be mutually exclusive? What if some find measuring their performance fun?

Honestly, I don't think there's much more to say in this conversation. Compromises have been presented, but the fight rages on. It seems to me that most people (on both sides) are looking at it more of "how does it effect me?" and then basing their decision off that instead of thinking about how it'll effect the game at large.

My final stance is basically that I don't think the game would turn into the nightmare anti-parser people imagine it to turn out to be. There might be a small spike upon release of a parser of some harassment from people misinterpreting it, but I think some reports and a month or two later then it'd be back to normal. The community in this game has overall been great when it comes to understanding proper use of parser, which are already quite widespread even now. Are there some bad apples? Sure. But that's life. There's always some. And you counteract those some by going after them, not the tools they use. Going back to the gun debate, the prevailing idea among those against guns (despite what the media might tell you) is to not necessarily get rid of them, but improve mental health care and education of gun ownership so that less people that shouldn't have them, don't have them, and those that do understand their usage. (Obviously, the whole thing gets a lot more complicated, as guns are more dangerous than a parser and are a different object with different nuances, making some other arguments not really work, such as making background checks more stringent, which can't really apply to a parser, but my point still stands.) I think if SE added a full on parser that had some kind of further information session about it that was mandatory when you did the quest to unlock it, then we wouldn't really have any problems overall. You can never completely eliminate harassment, but I think proper measures taken upon introduction of a parser would curtail all of the fears people have.

Just my final two cents.