A parsing thread? What is this, January 2018?

The debate's kind of been run dry several times over. To this day I haven't seen more than anecdotal evidence supporting the claim that parsers make a community more toxic. So far the only good point I've seen posted has been "There's something to be said about not giving people more tools to be toxic to each other," but that gets turned around to the point I can easily say the chatbox should be removed from the game with the exact same logic. I would even wager that chatboxes are a much stronger tool for toxicity than parsers ever have been or will be.

Saw a claim that FFLogs is just contextless e-peen flexing also. Some people do use it as that. My group uses it to gauge a lot of things; where healing and mitigation would be optimal based on outgoing boss damage and the best times to line up dps burst windows to name a few key team coordinations that FFLogs worked great as a tool to allow us to do.