The bots are taking over the forum!!!

Most of the members are Amercian. We had a russian once... I'm English (anyone who calls me "British" dies).

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Whoops hit the post button too soon.

These guys actually are breaking the law in many cases, their not aware of it though... And they get away with it. Even if you catch them, they are difficult to handle cases.

Fo the most part, a true bot is a a set of codes (macros... 3rd party... Program... Who cares... Whatever) designed to do certain actions (usually loop them so they do them over and over again). The simplest one is to make a page refresh. The more complex can walk around levels and level you up in on-line RPG games. They act like a robot, hence "bot". A lot of private servers for games ban them because there isn't actually a human on the character playing it. (bots are fun to mess around with because they are programed to do certain things, you can break the easily). You get ones on games like (for example) Diablo 2 that just stay around town spamming an ad for a site. They get banned, but the problem is the user just recreates them, I've seen a case where one bot was programed to keep setting up other bots (they all had the same program, the name was randomly generated). @_@

The ones for forums are usually spam or virus infectors.

The ones for games are cheats or fraud.
 
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Ohh ok, interesting Death thanks for answering.

@ Angel ohh cool dude so you're british : P lol just kidding, kidding but I like English people. You guys have cool accents, especially girls kind of sexy : P ha, ha

Anywho, that's neat about the mixed users on here. Then again, internet can get users from all over.
 
LOL ^^ burn them? I think you've enjoyed that Scorpion fatality too much : P ha, ha but yeah they're annoying as hell
 
It depends on if they are really bots or not, it shouldn't be easy to make an account here for bots. But I'll maybe have to strengthen our anti-bot question again.
 
The other day I deleted a post from some Jet Li movie thread that was actually a duplicate of a post I made in the Dark Knight thread. That blew my mind. If it's a human being doing that, then that's a pretty stupid human being. "I know, I'll plagiarize a moderator... the moderators will never figure that out!"
 
Patrick McCarron said:
It depends on if they are really bots or not, it shouldn't be easy to make an account here for bots. But I'll maybe have to strengthen our anti-bot question again.
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Pat, and or Jeff, one of you should contact Mike, aka DreemerNJ or Matt aka Shock over at UMK.com ad find out how to stamp these lil bastards out. We had the same problem with bots earlier this year, but they did something and never had ANYMORE since. Just an idea. I know they'll help ya. ;)
 
satinsoven said:
You guys should be ashamed of yourselves. Making a hate thread against a minority. Your intolerance makes me sick.
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Please tell me you're joking right? Bots=spam=ultimately useless and potentially causes problems. I don't apologize for disliking people/objects that cause problems. Ask the mods how they feel about bots/spam I'm sure they agree.

As far as helping, I'd ask MKO honestly....never seen nearly the bot amount on there as much as on here or umk.com.
 
Tim Static said:
I say something should be done about these bots.

They bring back very old topics, and are, well, annoying and unwanted.

/discuss
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You complain about the bots yet you always feel the need to say something negative to someone in a thread, which is annoying and unwanted.

Bit ironic, don't you think.
 
XxJadexX said:
You complain about the bots yet you always feel the need to say something negative to someone in a thread, which is annoying and unwanted.

Bit ironic, don't you think.
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This post was just as unneccesary as any "negative " post I've made. If you want to say something like that, why not PM me?

But when Glam, Jeary or a....mod does it, its ok, right?
 
Glamador said:
What's with the negativity Jade? Tim's been really good lately.
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I have nothing against him but it's rather stupid to complain about bots making unwanted posts when he's been guilty of it many times himself, including one in an old member's returning thread just the other day. It was a comment that was completely uncalled for and he had absolutely no reason whatsoever to post that comment. If the thread was lame, he didn't have to post in it.

Anyone who makes flame posts isn't any better than a bot. We try to keep this place a happy place where people will feel welcome to post but some people just feel the need to create a negative atmosphere. We can't even have discussions about video games without two or more people fighting.

People don't have to agree on everything but at least take the initiative to disagree in a mature manner. There is no need for name calling or random comments in threads like "I'm back" threads.

Just look at Tim's post right here before yours. He has no idea what goes on, he just acts like a crybaby with a pity party. ANYONE who makes negative comments gets an infraction or a warning from me if I catch it and the other mods hand out their own share of discipline when they catch someone breaking rules. Jeary got exactly what you got, Tim, not that it is any of your business, so stop trying to play the innocent one. I don't have anything against anyone in this forum and I don't play favourites. If any member, new or old, decides to break rules, they all get the same treatment. The mods do not have to disclose the actions taken to other members because it isn't anyone's business who gets what around here. It's no one's business what happens to you and it's no one's business what happens to anyone else.

Now Tim, I am not saying this to get you angry. I am a very honest person and if I had a problem with you, I wouldn't hesitate to throw it in your face and let you know. I am just trying to help you because you and a few others were pretty close to being on the chopping block because of all the fighting that was happening. I think that you're a good member, when you aren't arguing with someone, and I wouldn't want to see people banned for stupid reasons. I just ask you to think before you make posts so you don't get yourself in any more trouble. ;)
 
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Er...okee dokey then. I think Goraka and I made that point to Tim a while ago. But I'm not gonna argue about it, you've made your point and Tim has been guilty of that sort of thing in the past. I just don't want this to goad him back into an arguement and result in exactly what you don't want happening that's all.
 
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