Would you like an in-game parser?

[HyoMinPark]

You read only half of it, as said before i never said they ALL do discrimation using a parser. Just saying that a lot do. And i'm against encouraging that. I don't need exemple. It would be pointless, if you ask for exemple, next you can also say they're made up. Lastly i wouldn't talk about it if only seen once, if that were the case i would only have thought that the person was an idiot and whatever.

I read your entire post, but only responded to the second paragraph; that’s not me “reading only half of it”.

You’re using anecdotes and trying to pass them off as factual. You are saying you see harassment and that it is “bad enough as it is” (the rate of harassment), but you are using anecdotes as a basis, and to fuel that argument. Just as I use anecdotes when I counter and say, “no, it is not as bad as you think it is”. The anecdotes prove nothing, and therefore cannot be used as a logical/factual basis for why parsers should or should not be allowed. Again, don’t blame the tool because someone uses it in the wrong way, and that is what it seems like you are doing.

The party finder example was just an example of how players already “discriminate” in this game by setting PF limitations. It isn’t a made-up example. I also never asked you to provide any “examples”—I asked you to prove with quantitative, hard numbers that harassment is pervasive. You can’t argue with numbers, so if you did prove them and they were solid, then I would concede.

The only thing I’m saying are “made up” are these “statistics” people have been posting in this thread and trying to pass them off as “hard facts” as to why parsers should not be implemented. See the individual that said “for every one person using a parser for ‘good’, there are three others using it to be tools” a few pages back, and then resorted to accusing any and all who disagreed with them of “thumbs up circle jerking” (whatever the hell that is). There is no factual basis behind that statistic—it’s as made-up as this one: 75% of all statistics are all made up. I’m not saying that your personal experiences are “made up” or not true, but that they are anecdotal. And anecdotes =/= facts. That’s why they aren’t used in any sort of solid arguments and/or debates, because they are personal and skewed, not objective.




Discrimination will exist with a parser or without a parser. There’s no way around it.