Okay, so to understand this.

Parsers are illegal. Everyone uses them anyway. SE doesn't care unless harrasment is involved. Everyone enjoys the "don't ask to don't tell" elite secret crap of using them.

To me, this stance is beyond absurd for a AAA MMORPG title to take. It is confusing as all heck for new players, morally ambigious, and just leads people into feeling like they've "done something wrong." Mind, I could care less if parsers should be in the game, or should not, or if they're useful, or if they're not, or if people will get in trouble for using them, or not. What I care about is that SE refuses to make a stand on this one way or another and leaves new players feeling guilty. And that's just plain wrong. Anyway, that's my 10 cents... and I don't think I want to play in an environment like that. Parsers aren't the issue, I don't give a crap about them one way or another, SE unwilling to provide a new player an official answer is the issue.