SE's most difinitive statement yet on parsers

[Elven]

Read the post above yours. There's a world of difference between not allowing something because it's a parser and not allowing it because it's a third party program, REGARDLESS of what the program actually does. In this case, it's the latter, disallowing all third party programs. Has absolutely nothing to do with it being a parser, only that it's a third party program.

Should any world first achiever's come out and say they used parsers to pass the content first or would that kind of thing be frowned upon by the greater community? As long as it's against the Tos it's not allowed regardless if you view it as not cheating.