People advertising they're running Parsers

[Skiros]

As long as you're not in my savage parties, I suppose. And this isn't even about someone potentially mentioning a parser.

Typically people who are adamantly against parsers aren't that great gameplay-wise. Major red flag for me.

I'm fine with parsers but I really don't like gameplay third-party plugins (like Cactbot). I've been forced to use triggers for prog before and it was an unenjoyable experience because I didn't feel like I actually learned anything. People should not conflate parsing and the actual gameplay-impacting plugins like Cactbot. The former IMHO is totally harmless.

I can see why people are wary of third party tools coming from WoW but they need to realize that parsing by itself is very different from things like DBM.