DPS Meter Megathread

Literally page one of this gigantic post, taken in aggregate, favors Noaani's position.

I bet only one of the people on that page (before Noaani is even involved) would object to the compromise being advocated for.

I'm probably not writing a whole parser just to disprove your Siegfried Leap, @Mag7spy , especially since I figure Noaani will ignore you soon enough, but if you insist on doing your usual, I can assign someone else to write it.

It's bad enough when you do the 'Invisible Silent Majority' thing, but straight up lying about a "Visible Engaged Majority" is going a bit low.

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I'm willing to bet this is a lie. That's all I plan to say here, because even if I prove it's a lie, I get nothing out of it and it won't change you, as there's no Forum Rules against lying that I'm aware of, and you could easily just claim that you 'assumed it was true' and didn't 'really mean to lie'.

I'll count this as 'insisting', though.

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I think you don't know what I mean when I say 'someone will write a parser', but please continue to believe these sorts of things, as it makes dealing with you easier.

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Position, not suggestion. I believe Noaani's position has been clarified. Suggestions often take more scrutiny.

Position:
"Combat Trackers that don't track other people unless they want to be tracked are good/okay."

Suggestion:
"Ashes should make their own combat tracker for people/guilds and have it be opt-in instead of the alternative."

If I do parse it, I will parse for position, not suggestion, because unless every person who posted had a chance to talk to Noaani specifically about the suggestion, there would be no way to know their opinion on the suggestion itself.

It makes me have an interesting perception though.

If I have a personal combat log that tells me all the data, and I write the parser for that, have I violated ToS because of writing and activating it?

At what point does my Excel Spreadsheet become bad?

Obviously for a programmer, drawing the line is hard. People say 'do it by pen and paper or by excel sheet', but to me, if you say 'you can use a calculator' and 'you can use Excel', I can program now, so I have a 'Combat Tracker'.

What is it exactly that people want from me, then? What is it that I am not supposed to do? Is it that I'm only allowed to use a Tracker if I program it myself? What if my team writes it together? Can we all use it then?