Bots exploiting moneychairs

I still cant see that you gain much dishonest traffic by having a moneychair. I see it instead like a tool to get exposure of your place and some life from people that either come and go, or stand and wait for the letter to appear.
Its like a sploder in a club. It is something fun to while dancing and chatting.
The moneychair is another way of making a classified, in my opinion. You just pay the visitor instead of linden lab. Those visitors get to know your place, and also get to know eachother, make friends while waiting. Its not like camping, where people put their avatar and then go afk to do something else, or play tiny empires.

It can be that I am too new inhere, and still havent got the "so what" attitude yet. I feel for the community, and I like places with life. There is too much dead and empty places inhere already, and I guess that soon it will all be botland, if something or someone is not going to stop it.

Wait a second...you're saying that if you put out a (legal) sploder and load some money into it, there's bots that can somehow "sniff" these out and start showing up to take the money? That's kinda cool, actually....what kind/brand sploder did this friend of yours use? If it's not much, I might wanna try it just to relieve boredom.

I don't disagree with any of that. It's the "poor owner" thing that I addressed.

i don't remember if it was a sploder or a money ball or what.. but the owner had to put money into it..the people that played didn't have to..they just had to enter their name ..he had a few different thing like that..

but yes when he dropped one and then put money into it and it started a round .the bots would show up like clock work..

It's also possible the maker of the chairs could be running the bots too, we could know where they are and their L$ balance.

i understand and i didn't mean to come of as meaning you did..

i don't feel sorry for people setting up camping chairs for traffic..
i do think though that if they are going to be camped it should be by at least someone that is actually real and not a bot..

camping chairs are what spawned the bots that exploited camping that gave the idea to the owners that hey..these are bots..why am i giving money to bots??I'll just get my own bots and then i don't have to spend a dime now on camping..i can just make a box and do it all myself and be my own traffic..

my company is not going to be based on the need for traffic or camping or anything like that..
i don't really care how someone runs their own business ..if they have bots or not or camping or whatever..

but the bot that goes around sniffing out exploits is a thief bot..
i've had my favorite chair stolen from them my favorite bath set and almost had them swoop in and wreck a land deal between me and one of my friends..

i just get annoyed at lazy ass people botting every exploit they can find while sitting on their ass watching jerry springer eating a greasy bag of chips..they may not be actually doing that but thats the picture they paint in my mind of them..

now see, if I bothered to run a store (or vend through others stores as I've done before) I would happily set out a lucky device, not for traffic, but just as a way of advertising something that may not get as much attention as I think it deserves...

however!

like I said before, it would have some serious limits
1) if it's items, they are no-trans... if people like it they'll tell their friends, and people will buy it. word of mouth and demonstration is great advertising.

2) it will not automatically advance to the next letter or whatever, it'll be timed, period, one give away per letter, then it stops until time expires before moving on.

3) it would keep track of the number of items given away, and stop after a set number over a given time period. I'm not in business to give it all away.

4) if it's giving out cash (something I'd only do as a location owner) in addition to the above, it would ABSOLUTELY include a cap on monies given in a certain time frame. and track whom it was given to (so I could correlate it with impulse buys, to see what people really like and what price ranges they're in)

those things are NOT hard to script generally (although integrating money tracking for impulse buys can be a bit more hairy)

Yeah but do 20 bots TP'ing in for 1 minutr equal 10 real users wallking around for 2-5 minutes?
Do they even count for traffic if they are ther less than 1 minute?

You'll have to test that "less than 1 minute" thought. I would think it depends on whether or not they were there as the sample for that minute was taken. Judging by the OP it sounds like they were there for more than a minute and would have counted. Someone else mentioned seeing the same thing happen somewhere and it was all over in about 10 minutes.