Quote Originally Posted by Sebazy View Post
Look at it this way.

Little Timmy gets paid $10 an hour, he's struggling to get by on that and feels that he is due a pay rise. He'd quite like $100 an hour but that simply isn't going to happen. He decides to do one of the following:

A) Ask for a pay rise to $100 an hour.

B) Appreciate that that's never going to happen and not ask for anything.

C) Ask for a pay rise to $11 an hour.

Option A is one side of your suggestion, feel free to make your own thread asking as such and we'll see how that goes. I'll even bring the marshmallows.

Option B is the other side of your suggestion, nobody wins and the sorry state of affairs we have stays in place.

Option C is the choice grounded in reality. Is it what Little Timmy really wants? No. However.... It's a request that's much more likely to get a positive result. Even if it isn't a huge result, it's a start and it's progress. Once more people warm up to the idea and realise that this parsing stuff isn't actually all that bad then perhaps we can put option A back on the table again.
Your analogy is weak. Little Timmy doesn't have a choice because he needs that money to live. We do not need parsers to live. There is also the fact that someone else would probably be desperate enough to do his job if he complained too much about how little he got paid and was fired, but anyway...

It's not that my suggestion is "little bit of column A, little bit of column B." I'm calling a personal parser useless because it is. There is no proof Square Enix is any more accepting of this than a normal parser, therefore, asking for $11 or $100 an hour, it's pointless to choose 11 if in the end, the possibility of "No," as an answer is still the same.

My point is, unless Square Enix goes on the record to say they want a personal parser but need to see enough feedback or push for it, a regular parser has just as much chance to be accepted. The only thing that a personal parser benefits over a normal one is that they could still enforce the rule of don't ask/don't tell for numbers. Personal parsing literally only exists to avoid offending others. That's it. It has no extra benefits compared to an actual parser. That is why it is useless.