How would an optional, official parser be toxic?

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It's apparently not enough SE turns a blind eye to people using ACT as it is, but the abuse is against ToS. You can't say you know parsing isn't impacting how people behave and treat others. Do you have a metric for this? Do you really think people will say they are kicking someone for bad DPS, knowing it's against ToS to use a third party program like ACT?

:| "Giving people metrics to judge each other, that will never affect people being jerks to each other."
*Watches every other facet of life prove this incorrect.*

If parsing impacted people to extent insinuated on the forums, you would see mass kicking and widespread complaints about it. And yet in the past year you could count the number of threads bringing up such a dilemma on a single hand. Parse abuse is the same boogeyman nonsense "raider elitism" and other such buzzwords are. You're generalizing the actions of a few.

Don't be obtuse. Judging people and harassment are not the same thing. I can judge you on the context of your post here and now. Is that harassment? If not, then please don't put words in my mouth. Nevertheless, if we're going to fault the tool. Why hasn't Vote Abandon been removed from the game? People spam it incessantly following a couple wipes, especially in 24 mans just to avoid taking a penalty. I can kick you for literally any reason, including "I don't like your glamour." I suppose we need to remove the Vote Kick option, hmm? These argument seems to entirely omit the fact harassment remains against the ToS. If I tell you to uninstall your game, I can be reported. It makes little difference whether I cite parse numbers first. Therefore, unless SE abruptly stops taking harassment seriously, the people who do act like jerks will end up banned.

But yes, let's assume adding an official parse or simply allowing ACT to be discussed openly will magically turn even half the community into raging assholes.

Ya'll heard of parsing in Pagos, now get ready for some next level parsing of less than high end content.

Next up, parsing leveling roulette.

People already do both. You can even upload dungeon parses to FFlogs nowadays. No one cares, though it would be nice to show DPS why aoeing large pulls is better than single targeting, but I digress.