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Old Dec 14, 2007, 06:33 AM // 06:33   #1
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Annoying bots spamming "BUY GOLD HERE AT WWW.IMANASSWIPERMT.COM BEST PRICE BLAH BLAH". You /report them, but they simply log out, make a new spambot with a similar name, and continue. /report is largely toothless.

Bots who actually PM you to pester you. Really. I was out in the Crystal Desert, dealing with some annoying Scarabs, when all of a sudden I get this message saying something to the effect of what I stated earlier in this post. In PM. WTF?

Bots who log onto forums and hawk their wares, unwelcomed and unwanted. And some of them have the audacity to attach a or a to the topic. Smug little *******.

Seriously, why the hell hasn't A.net found a way to kill them off? Help me understand, because right now I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around this crap.
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Old Dec 14, 2007, 07:55 AM // 07:55   #2
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ANet can't make GW2 and ban thousands of bots at the same time, duh.
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Old Dec 14, 2007, 08:46 AM // 08:46   #3
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I think that there are just too many to ban like that.I mean, i assume they have to do check ups first before banning to be sure that they are banning a bot and not just some guy with too much free time.If Anet did decide to just ban everyone that was reported, the forums would be filled with people going "I wasnt spamming!!!!N00b Anet gimme my account back!!!!"

Just what i think anyway...
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Old Dec 14, 2007, 01:11 PM // 13:11   #4
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Bots don't PM you.

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Internet bots, also known as web robots, WWW robots or simply bots, are software applications that run automated tasks over the Internet. Typically, bots perform tasks that are both simple and structurally repetitive, at a much higher rate than would be possible for a human editor alone.
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Old Dec 14, 2007, 01:46 PM // 13:46   #5
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So when I responded to the offending PM with "Who the f*** is this and why the f*** did you PM me?!" there was a human being on the other end who was subjected to my verbal abuse?

Well, that makes it a little better, I suppose...
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Old Dec 14, 2007, 03:05 PM // 15:05   #6
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you think guild wars has it bad? try playing runescape.
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Old Dec 14, 2007, 03:28 PM // 15:28   #7
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you think guild wars has it bad? try playing runescape.
Been there done that. RunEscape is bad, yes. But RunEscape is a piece of crap game run by crappy people, unlike Guild Wars.
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Old Dec 14, 2007, 04:28 PM // 16:28   #8
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Zoned into the Great Temple of Balthazar yesterday, Bot city. Everyone was yelling about buying gold here and there... couldn't report them all so I just QQ'ed and left. But yes it is annoying, I have gotten some of those PM's as well.
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Old Dec 14, 2007, 04:41 PM // 16:41   #9
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So when I responded to the offending PM with "Who the f*** is this and why the f*** did you PM me?!" there was a human being on the other end who was subjected to my verbal abuse?
He was not a human. He was a trained monkey.
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Old Dec 14, 2007, 05:07 PM // 17:07   #10
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It's nearly always in the Great Temple, thank god for the option to toggle local chat on and off.

Lol Giga Strike I know exactly what you mean it's like 100 times worse in RS
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Old Dec 14, 2007, 05:29 PM // 17:29   #11
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Bots don't PM you.
I disagree; the timing is much too precise to be controlled by a person.

The last time I received one of these spam whispers, my alliance chat was immediately ablaze with anger and dismay. There were at least a dozen recipients of the same message within a window of ten seconds, if not instantaneously.
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Old Dec 14, 2007, 06:36 PM // 18:36   #12
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I disagree; the timing is much too precise to be controlled by a person.

The last time I received one of these spam whispers, my alliance chat was immediately ablaze with anger and dismay. There were at least a dozen recipients of the same message within a window of ten seconds, if not instantaneously.
So, you believe a software program (definition of BOT) can pick out a player name and send them a PM? Interesting.


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Old Dec 14, 2007, 06:40 PM // 18:40   #13
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Well, I'm sure bots can message people, just cycle through people with tab, Ctrl+Enter on their name, and pm away.
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Old Dec 14, 2007, 07:17 PM // 19:17   #14
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it's really getting annoying. but, that's life. at least when I'm in the shopping mart I don't have everyone screaming about their items.
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Old Dec 14, 2007, 09:07 PM // 21:07   #15
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A while ago I pm'ed Gaile suggesting an additional option to the /report feature for gold sellers, she said she would suggest it to the devs but nothing appears to have happened so far.
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Old Dec 14, 2007, 09:52 PM // 21:52   #16
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So, you believe a software program (definition of BOT) can pick out a player name and send them a PM? Interesting.


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Brianna has it right...bots can do keypresses, and ANet made it real easy to pm people with only keypresses.

Highlight a person, (tab or click), press ctrl + enter, and their name is automatically set to pm.
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Old Dec 15, 2007, 02:46 PM // 14:46   #17
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Why don't you all just ignore them? I don't see how it's a problem.
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Old Dec 15, 2007, 05:02 PM // 17:02   #18
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Because there are only 10 places in BList ;/
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Old Dec 15, 2007, 06:41 PM // 18:41   #19
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Because there are only 10 places in BList ;/

QFT. ;P

I wish they would expand that. I would have way more than 10 with all the annoying people in game and the bot PMs. Besides even if you put one of ignore they usually have a different account later and you end up with a different bot sending messages next time you go thru a "gold sales" town which they are spreading out into more and more towns.
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Old Dec 15, 2007, 06:44 PM // 18:44   #20
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Brianna has it right...bots can do keypresses, and ANet made it real easy to pm people with only keypresses.

Highlight a person, (tab or click), press ctrl + enter, and their name is automatically set to pm.
I never knew about that feature
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