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Mining bots= ban, Scam/spam bots=OK
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TharOkha
0asis Group
#1 - 2013-06-10 15:19:53 UTC  |  Edited by: TharOkha
Mining bots are not tolerated and are banned but Scam/spam bots have a green light from CCP. Can anybody explain why?

EDIT: For those who don't know, what is the problem, here are the statistics http://eve-live.com/stats/Jita

Same messages posting in precise intervals, everyday recycling and newborn "throw away" alts (block button is useless).

(No this thread is not stealth ban scammers thread... this is about ban BOTS thread.)

CODE. Venture hunt contest in a nutshell
Ken 1138
State War Academy
Caldari State
#2 - 2013-06-10 15:20:52 UTC
TharOkha wrote:
Mining bots are not tolerated and are banned but Scam bots have a green light from CCP. Can anybody explain why?


Scam bots buy plexes. Plexes = money for CCP.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#3 - 2013-06-10 15:21:33 UTC
TharOkha wrote:
Mining bots are not tolerated and are banned but Scam bots have a green light from CCP. Can anybody explain why?


What's a scam bot?

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
Doc Fury
Furious Enterprises
#4 - 2013-06-10 15:25:34 UTC  |  Edited by: Doc Fury
Ken 1138 wrote:
TharOkha wrote:
Mining bots are not tolerated and are banned but Scam bots have a green light from CCP. Can anybody explain why?


Scam bots buy plexes. Plexes = money for CCP.



Mining botters also bought/used PLEX, so that kinda' wrecks your theory.

☼

There's a million angry citizens looking down their tubes..at me.
Amanda Chelian
#5 - 2013-06-10 15:25:44 UTC
Ken 1138 wrote:
TharOkha wrote:
Mining bots are not tolerated and are banned but Scam bots have a green light from CCP. Can anybody explain why?


Scam bots buy plexes. Plexes = money for CCP.


Don't all kinds of bots buy PLEX (or an alternative payment method that still makes CCP money) ? Straight
Lady Ayeipsia
BlueWaffe
#6 - 2013-06-10 15:25:47 UTC
Ramona McCandless wrote:
TharOkha wrote:
Mining bots are not tolerated and are banned but Scam bots have a green light from CCP. Can anybody explain why?


What's a scam bot?


Yeah, what is a scam bot? Are you complaining about Jita spam messages?
Rordan D'Kherr
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#7 - 2013-06-10 15:26:13 UTC
TharOkha wrote:
Mining bots are not tolerated and are banned but Scam bots have a green light from CCP. Can anybody explain why?



Source?

Don't be scared, because being afk is not a crime.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#8 - 2013-06-10 15:32:49 UTC
Is it something that cant be handled buy using "Block" and "Report ISK Spammer" buttons?

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
Morganta
The Greater Goon
#9 - 2013-06-10 15:36:05 UTC
define bot as it applies to jita spam
Zircon Dasher
#10 - 2013-06-10 15:38:42 UTC
It appears that they do not ban the whine bots either.

Nerfing High-sec is never the answer. It is the question. The answer is 'YES'.
Johan Toralen
IIIJIIIITIIII
#11 - 2013-06-10 15:54:53 UTC
Scam bots don't have green light. But you have to you know actualy report them and provide some evidence that the char is actualy a bot and not just a spammer with too much time on his hands.
I got one scammer banned because i provided the proof in my petition that his contracts gets spammed in always the same time patterns. (screenshot from eve-live.com with time stamps of his messages)
Azami Nevinyrall
172.0.0.1
#12 - 2013-06-10 15:55:34 UTC
All bot are bannable, it just depends on who owns said bots...

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Xen Solarus
Furious Destruction and Salvage
#13 - 2013-06-10 16:21:56 UTC
There have been numerous examples of people clearly showing botters, mostly with how predictable their reposts are. (hopefully someone will link an example of this)

What does CCP do about it? As far as i can tell, not much. I guess they're ok with it. Cry

Post with your main, like a BOSS!

And no, i don't live in highsec.  As if that would make your opinion any less wrong.  
Kult Altol
The Safe Space
#14 - 2013-06-10 16:51:38 UTC
We are bots, you are the only real player.


But honestly more bots the better. Bring on the bots.

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Alexa Coates
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#15 - 2013-06-10 16:59:23 UTC
why do you people constantly whine about bots i mean for fucks sake who CARES. CCP gets money, you go about your merry business, move the **** on.

That's a Templar, an Amarr fighter used by carriers.
Sal Landry
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#16 - 2013-06-10 17:00:57 UTC
Alexa Coates wrote:
why do you people constantly whine about bots i mean for fucks sake who CARES. CCP gets money, you go about your merry business, move the **** on.

Botter detected.
Karsa Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#17 - 2013-06-10 17:01:40 UTC
Spam Bots have NOT been greenlit, they are just very far down on the todo list (they have a negligable influence on both the economy and server load).
I Need PLEX
Doomheim
#18 - 2013-06-10 17:12:15 UTC
Ramona McCandless wrote:
TharOkha wrote:
Mining bots are not tolerated and are banned but Scam bots have a green light from CCP. Can anybody explain why?


What's a scam bot?


A scam bot is that guy in Jita local who spams the thing about having 45b to give away but it requires a little trust blah blah blah check my bio for wallet journal, send any amount of isk and I will double it! Every 4.3 seconds

He actually had another character show up in B-D local, which is bizarre because its Cloud Ring for crying out loud, but goons are staged there so theres like 1000 people in local- and the guy admitted that his bots automatically go to where there are a lot of people What?
Lord Ryan
True Xero
#19 - 2013-06-10 17:23:52 UTC
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Is it something that cant be handled buy using "Block" and "Report ISK Spammer" buttons?



Doesn't work The Jita is my home guy recycles alts all day. I have something like 500 people blocked 400 are his alts.

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Scatim Helicon
State War Academy
Caldari State
#20 - 2013-06-10 17:39:42 UTC
If you get scammed by a bot you're really too dumb for eve and should probably go back to finger painting and dollies.

Every time you post a WiS thread, Hilmar strangles a kitten.
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