If running a parser makes you cynical and depressed, why do it?

[Goji1639]

Coming from the person who made a thread to ban parser's for pure validation from others, and then shrugging off most reasonable arguments, or people telling you that most people do not use parser's in a bad way, you just went for the confirmation bias of "parser bad", this is sorta rich.

I wasn't looking for validation from others, though; I was just stating why I think parsers should be banned. I didn't realize that technically they already were banned, and for the exact reasons I thought they should be.

Also, people responding with their experiences with parsers doesn't dissprove my own. I didn't brush them off, but I'm also not taking them as fact any more than you were willing to take my accounts as fact. I have a feeling that plenty of you would pop up to defend parsers to the death no matter what the context, so I'm not sure how seriously I should take you.