Landbots - What can be done?

How close does a bot have to get to your land before it can buy it?

Anyone bot or not can buy your land from a near infinite distance away. Including across several (presumably any number) of sim boundaries.

You can pan the camera over to wherever you like and buy whatever you can see. I forget the exact name but there's an option in the Debug Client menu for disabling camera constraints.

To be honest you can only really go as far as your draw distance so it would be quite a challenge to get that over 1024m or so. But theoretically the limit is extremely high.

hmm and a landbot doesnt have that same graphical based constraint? Having never seen one on my screen I have no idea how stripped down, stripped down is.

I totally agree right up to the point about stopping land bots. This is what I have been saying all along. I don't think it unreasonable to want to protect ones interest.

What I take exception to is when people like Reverend Herzog and Weedy Herbst start fabricating "facts" to support their claim that bots are bad, when in reality they are just trying to protect their interest, all be it in a underhanded manner.

marcus

So, now you are accusing Robin Linden of lying.

no he is accusing you of wining simply because you cant have things your own way

no he is accusing you of wining simply because you cant have things your own way

At least I can read.

He is the boldfaced liar, by making false statements about me.

Anyone who hacks up and overprices the mainland like yourself has no opinion on the matter. We all know your motive is to ruin the mainland with overpriced 16m plots.

Your word is not worth a pinch of dog crap.

Thank the lord almighty, some one finally gets it.

marcus

Stylee is a 16m ad plot hack, set on ruining the mainland with overpriced and ugly plots.

True colors and face value there, folks.....

lol, maybe you should take a deep breath before making a post instead of editing it later.

marcus

Wrong, I speak the truth about bots.

In this thread you openly lie about my ability to code, lied about me using a quote from Robin Linden and continue to lie about the bots use of database resources.

Call it sour grapes all you like, but Robin has made it clear, landbots have created an unfair land market.

Any more lies from the bots today?

I think it's great they show what levels they will stoop to damage people.

The only support you got this morning is from someone who is motivated to profit, by destroying mainland with overpriced eyesores sold at extorionist prices and a forum troll.

Not necessarily the moral highground there.

Wow, rewritting history from only a few thread pages ago, man you guys stop at nothing.

I think it's great that people can read through this thread and see what hypocrites all the land barons are.

marucs

The argument that "land bots let regular people take power back from the land barons" doesn't count

I was referinng to your "Your word is not worth a pinch of dog crap." comment which quickly became "True colors and face value there, folks.....".

But don't let me stop you from foaming at the mouth.

marcus

It is great, because here we have a case of landbots outright lying.

Clearly the landbots are the hypocrites, liars and arrogant misbehavers.

Bad enough they take people's work away, they insult and defame them too.

Landbots are destroying the community, by undermining the TOS for the sake of greed and will say anything to justify it.

The argument that "land bots let regular people take power back from the land barons" doesn't count

I agree, But I'm not sure anyone was making it.

It amuses me that the people claiming that "bots are bad" are using statements like "they are only in it for the money" or it's just "pure greed" and act like they are the savior of the "oppressed masses" of second life.

In reality they are only using the "oppressed masses" to help bolster their own dwindling position of power. These people ARE land barons who feel threatened by land bots and have decided to use arguments (that were once used against them) against the land botters in an attempt to convince people that by taking preventative measures against bots, SL will be a better place for all.

This is pure hypocrisy since preventative measures against bots only serve one purpose, to move the position of power back to the land barons and away from the land botters.

At least I can read. He is the boldfaced liar, by making false statements about me and Robin Linden

Stylee is a 16m ad plot hack, set on ruining the mainland with overpriced and ugly plots.

True colors and face value there, folks.....

Ok, cite proof that what you say is true. I know you can't and will ignore this post. Thanks for proving to me for the Nth time what I already knew.

marcus

Ok, cite proof that what you say is true. I know you can't and will ignore this post. Thanks for proving to me for the Nth time what I already knew.

marcus

Bots aren't exclusive if you can code. And you can't, hence your problem with them.

They are only concerned with one thing, their bottom line, their money and their power.

Because no matter how the land barons portray it, if you don't buy and sell land on mass, it doesn't affect you. The land barons would like you believe that this issue affects all of us and we need to rise up to stop this menace, but in reality there are only two sides and only they are affected. The land barons, who are fighting for, in their mind, control of the land market which they once had, and the botters who have found a more effective way to make money.

This is only about money, and who controls it. The barons might claim altruism, but it's a lie. Just look at who the loudest are in this "war", surprise, surprise it's the barons.

To the barons: this "war" is a "war of attrition". And unfortunately for you, computers (bots) don't think, they aren't sentient; they don't have morals or emotions, and will tirelessly perform their tasks until instructed otherwise. Making them the best "solders" in this "war of attrition", but then you know this already otherwise you wouldn't be complaining.

Some of you (land barons), understand that the only way to fight this "war" is by building a strong community of uninformed and blind followers to "convince" (see; bully) LL that they need to inhibit or ban bots, with the full knowledge that the only people this would serve to help is yourselves. Well good luck, because even if you manage to bolster your diminished ranks with uninformed, knee jerk reactionaries, in the end the ones left standing will be the bots, long after the rest have given up and/or gone to bed.

Oh and to the lackeys of the land barons that claim they don't sell land and have no vested interest in this "war" besides liberating SL from the big bot menace, why then are you continuing to spread the FUD that only serves to shift the balance of power back to them and in turn make them rich.