Quote Originally Posted by IdowhatIwant View Post
It's technically not stretching. When this conversation was first brought up Discord was something that was specifically mentioned that would be a third party tool.

This is pretty much where they did not want the community to be though with third party tools, is basically turning third party tools into a report war that they now have to deal with.
Being a third-party tool in itself is one thing. Being a third-party tool that directly interacts with, reads data, and/or modifies data are 2 entirely different things. Discord is a third-party software, but the purpose used is an entirely different 'platform' entirely.

I don't think they will ever nail the issue completely. On one hand, being vague does turn the situation into a petty report war, for numerous equally petty reasons, e.g. envy, or just general dislike and distaste for the individual. But equally, if you're specific in the matter and expand it beyond umbrella use terminology then you will have equally as petty individuals that turn around and say "Well that wasn't on the list, so why am I suspended/banned?" - Then you turn the issue into something where people do not follow the rule in principle but instead just treat their usage as a skirting checklist. Neither of which are good in reality. All they can do is be consistent with how they treat infractions, to which they aren't entirely.

Regardless of feelings though there is a stark distinction between which tools would be construed as third-party tools, yet do not mess with the game client, whereas some do, and the issues fall within the latter. Not the former, otherwise you can make some fairly petty insinuations about what would constitute as prohibited third-party.