The Real Problem with Parsers

[Aiselia]

What are the objective benefits?

Did you miss the "optional sharing" part at the end? Meaning people have the choice whether or not others see it? Meaning if you wipe purely because of a DPS check, asking for shares of parses would cover that?

Or to respond to the tank/healers, if the tank is dropping like a rock, ask for their share for cooldown uses, or if the tank is doing fine but not getting heals, ask for the healing share.

If somebody refuses to share, it suggests that they recognize that they may have issues but will refuse to take your help into consideration because they won't help you help them. That saves you time talking to a wall. And, I mean, if three out of four DPS share and they're all fine, and the fourth refuses to share, it's a pretty safe bet where the problem lies. If they're capable of recognizing that they're underperforming and that they're embarrassed to share because of that, then a stranger telling them they're bad isn't going to do anything more helpful.

Why are you lumping entire communities to the jerk-group?

I'm not. I've never said that the entire pro-parser side is represented by those people. I have more respect for Viridiana than I have for many people on both sides of the fence, honestly.

But their position is that people shouldn't be bringing them up because it's 3rd party software, not because bringing up dps is just inherently bad. Harassing people would still be against ToS.

Yes, and if they put in a personal parser and people use third-party parsers to see the rest of their group, it'd still be third-party software. What's your point?

There are many times where it's helpful to know what you're group is up to.

Which a personal parser with optional sharing can accomplish, especially with the other person's suggestion that you could optionally make it public.