Quote Originally Posted by Penthea View Post
You're not going to get away with posting parse results by saying "there's no rule against posting them" to a GM. Just post them in something like discord instead.
Discord is a third party program. You can be banned for that.

Same with those using Steam to access the game.

See.. there's an issue with a strict interpretation of the rules. You're first reaction is.. "what? no... Steam and Discord are fine for obvious reasons.."

Are they? What if I use a bot or script in Discord to parse? What if I use a mod on steamworkshop in one of the other games to analyze a set of text files?

The problem comes in that they have to move outside their wheelhouse to make a decision. It would be a bit different if they said, no parse data period. It would cover all those grey areas. But they didn't. Why is that? They didn't even say "don't post parse in FFXIV based chats". They leave it ambiguous. The only rules they have is don't use third party hacks and cheats and programs. Which doesn't include, VOIP. But VOIP can be used for this very thing.

Guess some of you are going to have to start reporting discord links. This makes things interesting.