Landbots... here's a thought...

There's always a lot of discussion about landbots, and usually it boils down to everyone hates them, but they're legal and it's our own stupid fault if we make a mistake.

In another recent thread someone said that landbots were a natural evolution of a market system.

Well that made me think. Rather than complain about it why doesn't someone step in and do something positve. There are lots of very skilled and knowledgable people in this forum, surely between you (I don't count myself as being particularly skilled nor knowledgable!) a landbot could be devised that's more efficient than the ones that the land barons use. Hell, get a Linden on board to give some inside help?

So, create a better land bot... set it to look for land that's obviously underpriced, buy it before the land baron landbots and sell it back to the original seller for the price paid (or perhaps charge a small fee for upkeep, L$ 10 or something). If the seller really did mean to put it on the market for $1 then so much the better!

I'm sure responsible land barons like Sarah Nerd could be persuaded to come on board?

Is this viable? Been tried before? Being done already in secret (although obviously don't answer if this is the case)?

Landbots aren't really related to scripting.

The major issue with landbots is that quite a few of them are exploiting loopholes in the land system which shouldn't be there. Those that are doing so are violating the ToS, and should be banned, along with their creators/owners. In addition, the loopholes should be fixed.

Also, LL needs to put in some kind of "posting delay" for land to go on sale in the search results. Something like a few minutes all the way up to a day. Land is too important of a resource not to impose some kind of transactional delay to give people time to make sure they did everything right, and also to slow the market down.

More landbots, exploiting more loopholes is not the correct alternative. This is a LL technical issue, and one they need to solve on the back-end.

The result being.... that some landlord figures out how this bot works, and uses the code to make his own but WITHOUT the sell-back option.

Another BIG problem we currently experience, is that some bots exploit a glitch, allowing them to purchase land even if the land is set with a named buyer. If you're lucky enough to have this bot on your land (it might be a small script inside a piece of your scripted furniture, like a television) then good luck trying to transfer your land to a friend, or even from group to yourself for 0L$ or whatever price is involved. The bot somehow manages to squeeze itself into the transaction and purchases before anyone else can.
And yes, this script sadly does exist, and Lindens are investigating. Meaning the real owners might never get their land back, because it already changed hands too often to new unknowing citizens, while the landmogul involved persists in his practices, cashing out his earned Lindens untill the glitch is fixed or Linden stops them (in which case they probably have enough money to start a new avatar and start over their scheme anyway)