Quote Originally Posted by Gemina View Post
This is all great. But it doesn't answer my question. How would an in-game parser NOT be toxic? Believe me, I am all for fact over perception but in all honestly, you really responded to very little of what I addressed despite quoting me directly.

I don't have any confusion, nor used rDPS as a means to harass other players. After my post, do you really feel you need to explain to me what in-game harassment is? However, maybe I am misinterpreting your intent. In any case, the prevention of harassing other players is exactly what I am going for so I believe we share a common goal here.

If a parser is used in any way to correct another player, it is no longer a personal parser. You understand this, right? If you think tossing out facts exempts condescending/toxic behavior, you are also mistaken. That's not the way this game, or the world works.
I was responding to your rephrased question about how an in-game parser could not be toxic. The tl;dr is essentially that a tool can't be toxic and a tool that gives numbers is not pumping out toxicity. There is absolutely nothing toxic about parsing or looking at data of any kind, be it for yourself or others.

You seem to imply that an in-game parser would increase toxicity when you mention not wanting to 'add to their workloads' by implementing an in-game parser while referencing SE's investigation of harrassment complaints. Sorry I'm not multi-quoting, I'm on my phone and lazy.

This mentality that in in game parser would add to the workload of SE's harrassment investigation team in conjunction with your closing statement asking how a parser would not be toxic leads me to believe you fundamentally misunderstand what toxicity or harrassment are which is why the majority of my post is spent explaining them.

I kind of feel like you didn't read my post, not that you're under any obligation to I suppose but you did decide to respond to it. I never implied that 'tossing out facts' would exempt someone from their behavior being deemed toxic but as long as they are only tossing out facts and not being insulting with them then no they are not harassing anyone.