Recent Developments of TOS Actions Taken

[Iscah]

What I'm genuinely curious about is whether SE is just going to look the other way when it comes to ToS violating activities being visibly performed on stream as long as no trash-talking or other social violations are involved.

I don't get the big deal about this element of it.

They've had a long-term policy of turning a blind eye to parsers.

Now someone has been banned for harassment that incidentally involved a parser.

Why do people see this as a sign of SE being inconsistent if they continue to turn a blind eye to parsers in a non-harassing context?

If it was the other way around - if harassment via YouTube happened regularly and was not moderated, but suddenly they came down heavily on one person who focused on a parser for (let's say) remarking how well a party member had played - that would make sense for people to start asking whether SE is going to be consistent about enforcing the rules on YouTube videos now. But when they chose to moderate something actually harmful and people start asking "so are they going to start showing consistency and modding the non-harmful things people do as well"... I don't get it.

The situations weren't comparable to start with, besides that both involve parsers (which is not what the ban was directly about).