SE's most difinitive statement yet on parsers

[PrimeEvilPanda]

I'm sorry, but the problem with Hunts isn't Radar.
The problem with Hunts, it's Hunts. They're poorly implemented and should have never, ever made it past any decent level of QA.

I was in general speaking about apps and their effect on the community (I did a poor job of it, sorry). In noting, how before, with dps parsers: YES, it was a hot debate in the forums - but within the game (at least in our server), it was kept to the confines of the raid community. Whereas with the radar app used in the Hunt, it had a negative effect on the entire community because it involved casual and hardcore players. I've seen more vitriol slung at people over radar apps than I had dps parsers.

In saying that, that is why I said I should not condone one and bag the other [app] because in essence they both evolve from within the same(?) program.

[Tashigi]

Whereas with the radar app used in the Hunt, it had a negative effect on the entire community because it involved casual and hardcore players. I've seen more vitriol slung at people over radar apps than I had dps parsers.

This was not the program's fault, though.
The playerbase has been greatly misinformed about these plugins, particularly the Radar plugin, which is actually quite limited. So limited, that it's a lot better/easier to look for Hunt targets the old fashion way; by panning your camera.
You should look it up and read about it's functions and limits and you'll understand, too.
Why the playerbase has exaggerated and blown these things out of proportion, well, I can't answer that without laughing. It's just silly how many of these threads we seem to get a day/week.