Which rule states that parses can't be posted in chat?

[Penthea]

Never heard of a single person getting full-on banned for running ACT or posting a parse. If a ban happens, it would be because the person is harassing someone, and that's what the infraction would be for. They might slap on a TPS infraction at the same time, but that's not why they'd take an action.

Basically, don't harass people, parsing or not.

Actually a few weeks before ShB launch someone in these forums made a thread saying that they got a temporary ban for posting parse results. A player in their party asked them for dps numbers, they posted it in the chat, and not long afterwards they got the ban. According to that person there was zero harassment, but they got a ban anyway. Perhaps because it wasn't also a harassment issue that meant they got only a temporary ban.

[YojimboM]

Actually a few weeks before ShB launch someone in these forums made a thread saying that they got a temporary ban for posting parse results. A player in their party asked them for dps numbers, they posted it in the chat, and not long afterwards they got the ban. According to that person there was zero harassment, but they got a ban anyway. Perhaps because it wasn't also a harassment issue that meant they got only a temporary ban.

"full-on banned". A temporary suspension isn't a ban. The person I was replying to was making it out as if you would lose everything by simply even running ACT while you were playing ("you are highly unlikely to get your account unbanned and at the very best might get your money back for the purchase of the game").

If I had to take a guess, someone in the party didn't like the numbers they saw from themselves and decided they were going to report that disgusting person who made them feel bad about themselves indirectly. So, when they wrote up the report, they probably did some spiel to the GM about feeling upset over it, and the GM they got happened to be a bleeding heart type or maybe a rule-interpreting overachiever and decided to hit them with an infraction for TPS.

Anyways, this is by far the exception to the case, ACT has been in use in this game for its entire existence and if people were actually getting real bans over it then it would be heard about far more and there'd be more push to get it allowed.

[Penthea]

"full-on banned". A temporary suspension isn't a ban.

You might want to rephrase that as a "permanent ban" if this is what you mean. I thought you meant a full-on ban as in you could not log in, as opposed to something like a GM jail where you still have access to the game, but you're suspended from actually playing it in a real way.

If I had to take a guess, someone in the party didn't like the numbers they saw from themselves

If I recall correctly the OP of that thread claimed it was done through whisper channels. They made a habit of doing this with many players they came across and one of them used his willingness to post numbers to bait him into admitting that he uses parsers, and then reported him.

It sucks that the OP was only nicely doing what that player asked for, but it goes to show that you can't assume that just because someone personally requests parser data in private that it means they won't report you for parser use. Some people will troll in any way they can, and maybe some hate parsers enough to do that sort of thing. It's safer to just not ever share any trace of parser use in game.