Quote Originally Posted by Kaurhz View Post
That's the whole point of it, yes. Unless someone openly admits to having used ACT then you really can't make the distinction of whether someone is actually using it or just Excel, and at that point you turn the discussion of it into more something that is philosophical/fundamental such as manually calculating each damage entry by a given party member and then diving that total by the length of the fight, and then you take it a step further with Excel. Just multiple ways of parsing the combat data.

I don't know how you managed to glean that I have a distaste for it. I don't care, what I do care about is people trying to reach incredibly hard to make a point. Discord isn't even remotely comparable.
I'm not thinking one way or the other. I'm just trying to understand where you are coming from. They literally say "No third party tools". It's not hard to objectively say those who are using voice comms have an advantage over those who aren't. They don't say "No third party tools, but Discord is ok". What I fail to understand is, by your admission, if ACT and Excel are doing the same thing, why would you have an issue with HOW the data is collected, if the data and the result are the same?