SE's most difinitive statement yet on parsers

[Mcshiggs]

What kind of organization hosting a race wouldn't have it timed? This is just a terrible analogy. Every MMO makes you feel like a hero, and almost all of them have built in parsers or app support. The people pointing out you are a bad DPS and saying they are parsing you are just harassing you, and they would be harassing players regardless of third party software.

See this is the problem when you try to compare something like a video game with something like sprinting, when you look at it one way, it makes perfect sense, then when someone takes it to refute your point, it becomes a terrible analogy. Maybe there isn't any organization that would ban stopwatches, but if there was, using one would be cheating, and I can go outside and race someone, you don't need to time us to tell who won. See SE has said that using parsers is against the rules, cheating, so using them is against the rules, cheating. As for harassing players if you have a parser, you have numerical proof, without it, right or wrong, you are just talking.
You say that almost all MMOs have built in parsers or app support, well that is a useless argument, because this game states that using them is against ToS, if they change it in the future ok, but saying they will change it in the future doesn't ok the use of them now.