This is why this game should'nt get a parse

[Shurrikhan]

Its all good, I'll try to read more carefully next time. Sorry for replying as i did.




As a whole, I agree with your stance. But then, how does a community warm up to it? How could SE, or anyone, measure the acceptance of parsers? I suppose the corollary to that is how could one evaluate if toxicity gets worse or better with it? How could a community say this is or is not working? Personally, while I like reading the forums, they would be a poor medium to evaluate such a thing.

When your majority of experiences of when, say, a DF group upon failing a DPS check of some sorts receives valid, relevant, and not-yet-capitalized-upon pointers for improvement in the given phase and no one snarkily peps back that they're not to blame, or that they know better, or that the advise is officious and therefore inherently malicious, you'd be getting warmer. Bonus if people note things they could have improved, ask questions, or offer other pieces of advice of their own, working towards the end of completion -- often completing the short-term goal by seemingly a larger margin than necessary in order to provide leeway thereafter and best habits leading up to that point -- rather than acting defensively or centering that experience around themselves. By the time the vast majority of people are willing to spend the time to practice and improve on their own time as necessary to perform up to expectations in the content they'll be entering -- and have the tools to let that practice make a difference -- and especially if they can come to enjoy that process of self-improvement, we'd pretty much be there.

Parsers are primarily a self-improvement tool; people need to first be into that sort of thing. Otherwise it's like a gym without members, because any current would-be athelete who'd make use of it only exercises in that very same process that they're working towards. Puny-armed mountain-bikers going down potentially dangerous slopes, slim high school linebackers facing off when they might not be able shove around someone even their own weight, with only the act itself to benchmark from and improve by.