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[Sebazy]

it is not IF! People have prasers already! No one ever ever gave advice from having a praser, it was always used as a harassment tool. Making it official will only make it worse. The community already proved they can't handle official prasers.

I'm really sorry that you feel that way but I can 100% assure you from personal experience that you are incorrect here. I'm not crazy enough to suggest that harassment never happens but I'll touch on that more in a moment.

On the flipside though, you will frequently see more casual players and raiders getting help from FC/team mates with parsers to optimise their performance so to say that 'No one ever gave advice from having a parser' is utterly untrue. Both parses and logs can be used as a tool to further both your own understanding as well as to pool that knowledge with others.

For example, early on in 3.0 I released a series of video guides with numbers and logs demonstrating how a SCH could do similar or even more damage numbers across the roulette dungeons than many actual DPS jobs. No one was flamed, no one was harassed. This was just data being presented in a clear and understandable format to help others improve their standard of play and speed up their dungeon runs significantly. There are many other examples of data helping even casual players in this game even right here on these forums. Damage rotations, fight strategies and such will all stem from this scene as well. It really isn't the boogieman you seem to feel it is.

People do not care if something can be reported, they will keep going on. I was in a MSQ once where someone was pushing numbers on someone and some others told them to stop because it can be reported, and they kept doing it.

Er, correct me if I'm wrong, but a 7-14 day temp ban generally makes people take notice pretty quickly, if people report it (which they do already), and GMs enforce it (which they also do already), players with common sense will quickly get a handle on what's acceptable and what isn't. Players without tact or common sense will quickly get banned. Win/win for everyone I'd say <3

No one used a praser to help someone in random DFs, only as an harassment tool.

And no one has ever used reddit for anything other than funny cat pictures.

I can respect more casual players having a fear of parsers, but participating in a discussion like this without taking an open mind isn't especially productive =(