Quote Originally Posted by Shougun View Post
Might be fine but personally would recommend removing the name of all those tools and websites. Just in case (can't do too much about the title, but I'm thinking more on that other name).

As for an official sort of stance Yoshida has on record said that they wont go out of their way to punish the use of parsers, and have watched streamers who use them, but it is very much a don't ask don't tell situation when it comes to official channels (forums/game). Don't talk about it, at least in the stance of you're using it, and especially don't harass someone about it (which should be obvious lol).

As for the uploading of other people's data, it's sort of par course of the time but I'm not up with the times. I really dislike my privacy being breached (imo) without my consent. It's a dead fight in the era of mass data but still one that I'm uncomfortable with. I hid all my stuff not out of shame when I first did the lodestone but just because I thought "none of your business". I've later opened it just because I found some websites that suited me but that's me deciding to release it then, I don't like others deciding that for me.. makes me.. something between uncomfortable and queer feeling. I'm not an intensely private person but I just like to decide my own sphere and not have unknown snippets of whatever be attributed without context lol.

So my thought is the website that shall not be named shouldn't list people without permission granted, but I figure then the community in a general average sense, in hardcore portions, will make it non-optional. Alternately if they don't do it someone else probably would, potentially making that one become the new main source. Age of data /shrug.
I don't mind my name being there, but I really don't understand why they don't just anonymize all names but the uploader's unless they agreed their named to be shown. Adding a #alias (mch#3145 or so) to mask the actual char name shouldnt be that hard to implement