Parsing unfair but okay?

[Gyson]

You've been around since at least 2014. You realize parsing has been around since before then, and even FFLogs goes back to HW. In essence, this has been around since the beginning. Since you have experience, let me ask you this. If you didn't have a parser, how would you have known who to have "that talk" to about DPS? Sure, people might not fail mechanics, but damage can still be low enough to not hit enrage. How do you determine if you have a weak link or not if everyone thinks it's not them? Take it one step further, how would one even know where they need to improve?

Yes, I know it's been around for a long time. The difference is it wasn't talked about openly back then, except to tell others not to talk about it openly. But now we have threads where players are saying they can't apply for a static without providing a parse, and most people seem more interested in trying to normalize that and parse usage. Six years ago most of the responses would have been along the lines of "That's against TOS, report that if it becomes an issue, <3". We just seemed less tolerant of parses being used for more than personal development.

I had to explain to other people that their DPS needed improvement in games like WoW because DPS checks became the norm there, primarily because everyone abused parsers into the ground and so the developers developed content around DPS checks more and more to counter that. I would really prefer that not happen here.

They don't say "No third party tools, but Discord is ok".

Also.. Yoshi-P has literally stated that external voice chat programs are not prohibited.