Quote Originally Posted by Gilraen View Post
All well and good, but that's not what the original post is asking for. All they want is a personal parser, something neither side should have a problem with. I know the ant-parser side doesn't because all we ask is to leave us outof it, you know, "Don't ask, don't tell." A personal parser should be the epitome of 'having your cake and really eating it, too'. But this doesn't seem to satisfy the pro-parser crowd at all, and it's baffling. Anti-parsers aren't going to become irrate if someone asks if they are using a personal parser, they will likely calmly say they don't and the discussion, if everyone is level-headed about it, ends at that. And those who are running personal parsers can chime in and share! Everyone gets their way. The only argument against parsers being personal that I can see is if you want to drag others into it, willingly or not. I get the feeling the original post wants to avoid that, to which I say, "Good on you."
Except it's not. Context context context! You have no idea how well you are doing unless you can compare and contrast with others.

Also, you have not addressed blacklist and report. Why is that not good enough? Especially when we can see how it works on live servers. Harassing a player with a parser gets you a one way ticket to the ban hammer festival. Why do you think that would be any different with a parser provided by SE to all players?