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

[Alucard135]

I never said "every" or "all" users, that's just an assumption you're making to try to create your position here. The fact is there are plenty of people who use parsers to validate themselves by stepping on people who under-perform. We have different opinions and experiences on how many people that is, but it should be obvious without me saying it that I don't know the intentions of absolutely everyone who's ever used a parser in this game.

I also never said that rescue was ONLY used to troll people; again you just added that qualifier to create some kind of strawman to argue. My position there was simply that rescue is a very blatant tool for trolling that doesn't need to exist as it does. Regardless of how many people troll with it, a tool that so easily facilitates trolling probably should be modified in a social game.

You never said "some" or specified a certain size of the parser users population either. You just said "they" which is a generalization. Just like someone saying "Casuals ruin this game". I don't need to say "All casuals ruin this game" for someone to understand that I referred to them all.

And now you say "The fact is there are plenty of people who use parsers validate themselves by stepping on people who under-perform". Got anything to back up that claim? Or just an anecdotal again? How did you know that plenty of the users do that?

As for rescue, maybe you didn't say "only" so I'll give you that. But you did state that's what the tool does and what it is, which is clearly a false understanding of the tool that you tried to enforce based on your personal experience.