Quote Originally Posted by Hayward View Post
Guess what will happen if this idiotic suggestion were carried out:

1) A certain forum that poisoned the FFXI community will post these parses in a stickered "Do not invite" thread.

2) Job discrimination will become far worse due to intellectually lazy sheep swallowing whatever the elitists put on the forums.

Group parsers is the absolute LAST thing this game and community needs.
Naming and shaming isn't allowed on this forum from what I can recall, and other forums can still do so. Parsers are available already, and SE can't do anything if a player decided to post a parse of a stranger on a 3rd party forum. Regardless of that, the amount of people that post on the 1st party forums amounts to less than 5%, 3rd party forums? Likely less than 0.5%, wouldn't even make an impact.

Job discrimination is only a thing because parsers aren't available to the masses. If a MCH is in your party and you fail a DPS check, guess who the ass that's pulling less than 300 DPS is going to blame, that's right the MCH. People can't exactly disagree with him, and because of the stigma associated with that class they might even be kicked (though it's not as bad now as it used to be). With a parser people will actually be able to prove that they can pull the weight. I see no reason to be against parsers unless you (by you, I mean everyone who dislikes the idea of a parser so much) happen to not be pulling your weight in difficult trials/raids, or want those that don't to get away with it for whatever reason.