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Post by alink2thepast on Jun 25, 2005 14:47:51 GMT -8
Ok, in case you haven't noticed, people with bots(*cough* MR.FUNGI *cough*), are really annoying to have in the channel while playing trivia. Is there a way you could ban all bots except for triviahost, thetriviahost, and onlinegaming? Cuz I'm sure the bot users would be fine to play with if they didn't have their annoying bot companions.
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Post by LostPeon™ on Jun 25, 2005 14:52:41 GMT -8
Well, I'm going to have to say no on this one. I know what happened earlier was a little annoying, but I gave him a chance to keep the bot without annoying others. He didn't listen, so I banned the bot and kicked the offending users. However, some users, me included, use bots frequently. I just sign on one of my bots because it's easier than opening up the entire StarCraft program and doing all that business. So, if I just want some trivia, I get on one of my bots (or sometimes more than one, to boost the user count in the channel ). So, I think it's fine to have bots, but some users don't understand how to whisper to them or how to generally not annoy everyone else.
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Post by parson3 on Jun 25, 2005 17:30:36 GMT -8
I would have to agree with peon on this one. Even though i dont use a bot, i would have to say that the only way they become annoying is if people use them wrong. Sometimes a bot can be fun too. U can see how fast u answered and other stuff.
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Post by alink2thepast on Jun 25, 2005 17:35:27 GMT -8
ya i guess, it just happened a couple times close together and I was getting pissed.
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Post by rabidgecko on Jun 25, 2005 17:54:49 GMT -8
i use my bot all the time, i only ever open up starcraft if i wanna play a game and gees parson, i didnt know you believed in that because everytime you'd get the times you'd be like "pffft bot's time isnt right" or "i KNOW that time is wrong" so suddenly oyu get a change of heart
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Post by parson3 on Jun 25, 2005 18:35:14 GMT -8
Lol well rabid, i want a bot to be there and get the time when a black sabbath q comes up, i can PROVE ur bot is wong. Once it said it took me 3 seconds to read the question and write the word 'tic'. First off, i didnt even read the entire question (only the first few words, and even them, i skimmed them). Second, it wouldnt take me more than 1 second to type out 'tic'. Im not saying im amazing or anything, but even players slower than me would be able to read the entire q and answer it in 3 REAL seconds. Not that im saying ut bots wrong or anything
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Post by alink2thepast on Jun 26, 2005 5:47:33 GMT -8
Is there away that the triviahost bots could recognize that a member in the channel was a bot? Bacause maybe you could make a command like .botabuse (insert bots name here) that people could use to warn, and eventually kick after a couple warnings, the bots that are being abused. This would only work if there was a way that the triviahost bot could make it only work against bots, not actual users though becaust then people would abuse the command. Just a suggestion.
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Post by Chalupa! on Jun 26, 2005 10:32:20 GMT -8
No, there is no way to detect a bot. Some using BNLS have a plug next to their name, but even Bnet can't determine when someone logs in using Starcraft or a Bot. If they could, there would be no more bots. Bnet has already tried to get rid of bots and at one time had their attorneys going after the bot makers.
Most bots use hashing which looks to bnet like a Starcraft user.
Chalupa
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Post by Compbasher on Jun 26, 2005 13:17:08 GMT -8
Without the bots, how would I be able to capture all those silly moments in the trivia channels and embarrass people?? That would be a world I wouldn't want to live in.
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Post by rabidgecko on Jun 26, 2005 14:53:43 GMT -8
well without bots you could take screen shots.... its not quite the same but it could work
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Post by greeny on Jun 26, 2005 18:06:25 GMT -8
............. how do bots help in getting screenshots?
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Post by parson3 on Jun 26, 2005 18:19:56 GMT -8
I think he means that with a bot u can save the conversations and later retrieve them. Without a bot, if u wanted to record the conversations, u would need to take a screen shot of everything.
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Post by Compbasher on Jun 26, 2005 19:17:37 GMT -8
And I have absolutely no idea how to conduct such a screenshot.
If told the process correctly and to the fullest extent, thou shall receive a pot of gold o'er the 7th rainbow of Catamount on the eleventh night of the Black Sage.
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Post by parson3 on Jun 26, 2005 21:32:49 GMT -8
Can i just have like a hamburger?..im kinda hungary right now
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Post by Hawaiian Born on Jun 26, 2005 22:39:45 GMT -8
hehe, Link, stop whining cause bots are cool. They get those cool magic moments and can be used to time how long it takes to answer a question. Besides, how can a bot get annoying?
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