If running a parser makes you cynical and depressed, why do it?

[Alucard135]

I wasn't looking for validation from others, though; I was just stating why I think parsers should be banned. I didn't realize that technically they already were banned, and for the exact reasons I thought they should be.

Also, people responding with their experiences with parsers doesn't dissprove my own. I didn't brush them off, but I'm also not taking them as fact any more than you were willing to take my accounts as fact. I have a feeling that plenty of you would pop up to defend parsers to the death no matter what the context, so I'm not sure how seriously I should take you.

To be honest, you're the one who shouldn't be taken seriously. You already generalized your previous statement as if it's true for all parser users because that's your experience with parser users. So it's quite naturally that you'd see people who had different experience than yours since you already made the fallacy of basing your fact on anecdotal evidence.

This is similar to how you tried so hard to push the idea that rescue is only used to troll people and has no other use, simply because you never dealt with a content that utilizes it on a regular basis.