Absolute frustration at not being able to see my own DPS (ps4)

[Kezy_Kaatapoh]

I'm not arguing for or against parsers. I only replied in this topic because someone else was essentially telling someone who feared possible harassment to "get over" it, which I felt was dismissing the possibility for abuse. Subsequently another poster stated that the fear of harassment had been "brought up and disproven in literally every single" instance where this was discussed. I simply pointed out that you cannot disprove an emotion or feeling that another person has about something. If people fear harassment, it's a legitimate issue, and who are we to dismiss it? I pointed this out and well, you know the rest.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that the argument you're making is that it doesn't matter why someone holds a fear, the fact of the matter is that they have a fear and it needs to be considered, no?

Assuming this is your argument, unfortunately, you cannot account for every fear someone has. There needs to be a point where you look at how rational that fear is. If SE were to take action to try and prevent every single little thing that a person takes offense to, we wouldn't be playing an MMO. We'd be playing a single player game. Everyone is different. The essence of human interaction necessitates that some people will not get along, some people will not communicate well, and some people will get offended. To try and eliminate any fears someone has of being offended or hurt means to eliminate all human interaction from the game. This is something that just CANNOT be done for this game due to its nature. It's an MMO. The whole point of it is cooperation and playing with others.

Just because someone has a fear doesn't mean it is founded in sound reasoning. Like I said, everyone is different, but at a certain point, a standard in society is created that bases what the general population considers to be an ok way to go about talking to people. Some people's standards require abolition of critique, or hyper politeness to the point of absurdity. These people cannot be accounted for because some standard needs to be set. What people mean when they say they "disprove" a fear is that the fear is unfounded based on principal of societal standards and proof of fact. People have fears of getting critiqued and/or insulted, and that parsers usage will make this more apparent than it already is. People have stated evidence to support that parser usage will NOT increase harassment any more than normal, and others have pointed out logical flaws in blaming parsers for critiques and insults (I should note, being critiqued should not be considered a bad thing, it's just the nature of critiquing that some people get offended easily by, but again, standards). You say parser supporters are ignoring the issue, but quite frankly, we're just saying it isn't an issue in the first place.

I'd also like to note, that in every post regarding parsers I see, you are far and away the most aggressive (and often insulting) in them, as well as take offense quite easily. It may help to step back and think about what someone's intent is or how they might be trying to say what they say.