Bot Annihalation

thats not what you said.

You said "Dont be stupid, I know its hard for you."

Completely different.

Pfffft...come on Phil...knock knock! It's me, Little Red Riding Hood. Can me and the big bad wolf come in now?

Aha. You mean something different to me, by "gaming". To me, it is doing things that will cause a place (or webpage) to rank higher than it normally would. To you, it means cheating. It isn't cheating, Colette, but we've been through that before, in great detail. Let's not argue it out again. You think it's cheating, and I don't think it's cheating. Some people may not remember the discussion about it, but I've no desire to go through it all again. I'm content that you think it's cheating, and that I don't.

Me thinks Colette and Phil should meet in a combat sim and settle their differences.

Although I understand and support Phil's use of bots to compete in his business, I agree with Colette that the practice is lacking in ethics.

Pure capitalism (which we have in SL) and ethics are very much in conflict with each other. I prefer to live my life and conduct my SL business in an ethical manner. In doing so, I acknowledge that it puts me at a disadvantage. My own business dealings in land and rentals is really nothing much more than a hobby these days. If things go south at times, I merely have to pick up the extra tier payments myself until better days arrive. For this reason, I no longer invest in more land than I can comfortably pay tier on myself, less the renters contributions.
While I prefer ethics over expedience, I am not willing to fault another for making that choice as long as no one is injured. (Yes, Colette I realize you will say that his more ethical competitors will suffer injury, but in reality these big box, low prim furniture mavens cater to the masses. They do not take away from the niche designers where folks like you and I spend our $L).

So I was economical with the quote It's still the same - I wasn't changing the subject, whereas you were. But you can do now that we've got to the bottom line - you think it's cheating and I don't, AND I choose not to go through it all again. If it really is cheating, then I agree that it's unethical. But I don't believe for a second that it's cheating, so for me, it isn't unethical.

By that logic, the same could be said about forum post counts.

If every resident in SL had 12K+ posts, the forums would implode.

He locked me out of his sim He thinks i'm gonna keel his bots.

Okay ... we can go that route


*IF* gaming the traffic system is cheating.

*THEN* gaming the system is unethical.

*AND* telling others they should also cheat is not a ethical solution.

*AND* Trafficbots are therefore also unethical.

*AT Best* Trafficbots could be explained as a necessary evil because of business reality. But they are still unethical.

I feel, as do many others, that gaming the system is cheating. End.

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You feel it isn't cheating. You are entitled to your opinion. It does nothing to invalidate my thought process above.

thats okay, 95% of all residents don't ever post on the forums.

Understood. He is becoming paranoid.

"becoming"?

Hi cowboy

95% of residents don't run bots either.

Disproportion is only ok, when it applies to you then?

99.999% of all residents don't run bots, but a fair number of older "and wiser" accounts run alts.

But that 5% of residents who do run bots lag out the other 95%. Bots and sensors that work beyond the plot they are currently on are the next things LL should look to clean up.

In the not so distant past I would be posting this as in before the lock.

Guess so.

How is Jannae this evening?

Currently not in world, but enjoying spring break with great intensity.

I love your attitude Colette.

Not all bots.

Landbots and search bots gobble up resources, lots of it. That's not good.

There are alot of bots that have narrow focus and limited function. That doesn't make them bad.

We use a single bot to manage our landbase. Attending our plots manually would takes days and days, if not weeks. A bot can perform the same purpose in much shorter duration and with much more resource economy (no bling, no attachments, no graphics to load in every sim).

Yes well we should just have paying, because when it comes down to it that what happens in the real world, if a magazine offered free ad to every plumber in the area, you put an ad in then found another plumber in the area had 20 free ads by just putting them in under different names because it was possible, it is fair even if it's not ethical I guess by you?

Quite difference between those and bots that only exist to game the traffic system. I would think.

Yeah, I'll think about that while I'm orbiting those bots.

Would anyone else like to help organize a bot hunt?