Quote Originally Posted by Orieldis View Post
If there's one thing WoW did right, it was allowing addons. I deeply dislike the stigma against even really innocuous stuff (like parsers) in the community.

You have to realize that there's likely a large percentage of the population who is parsing, and an even larger percentage among those who don't say anything. I will literally never care if someone parses, unless they decide to use it to be toxic, and at that point I have a problem with the person, not the parser. That's not even talking about people who just use parsers with their static, or to monitor their own damage, etc.

In other words, who cares
There are upsides in the approach SE has chosen. For everyone who knows how to use the info a parser provides productively there are also people who are just idiots and use it to stir up shit in groups where it's not warranted. Those people are usually not smart enough to point out issues without outside help so shutting them down completely is a benefit. I dont think exact damage numbers are something to be brought up in dungeons for example. In extreme and up of course it's a different story and I'm not happy with the current approach of kick silently and then blacklist.