Quote Originally Posted by File2ish View Post
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You have a causation vs correlation issue.

Parsers do not cause abuse, toxic people cause abuse. Spoons did not make you fat.

Those same people will find other ways to abuse people.
I used to think parsers were 'evil' and that they could only bring games down. Then i realised they are just a tool, they are a thing- they do not cause people to be assholes. You cannot blame the 'thing' for peoples actions, you have to blame the people. Its as simple as filing an ingame report for harassment- the same option you would have parser or no parser. Its as simple as blacklisting them and reporting them, and before anyone says "We shouldnt have to do that."

You are right, you shouldnt but thats not the way the world works. In almost any community, game or otherwise, you will encounter them.

TL;DR: Dont blame an inanimate object for people being assholes, they would be anyways.