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Date:    2014 Jul 30 07:34
To:      all
From:    haswell
Subject: re: gh and botting
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Yes, I agree that gh should be removed. At best it is a command for lazy people,
as you don't have to really decide whom to heal once you have added people.
It just does it for you, so there's no real decision making involved. Because there
is no real decision making, it makes the command far easier to turn into a bot than
otherwise.
Victorious's procedure for turning it into a bot doesn't seem like a hard one, and
the ease of bot creation also makes it more amenable to distributing among people,
because little work was
required to build the bot in the first place, so the distributor doesn't feel as
though he is giving too much away. This would also force Dentin to
be more zealous about bot checking, which might translate to false positives, especially
if people overuse gh.
Also, it just does not feel right to allow people to so easily create a bot when
most of the work was already done for them.
This was one of the reasons that I disabled the mushZ group bots because they encouraged
laziness. They also were quite primitive and easily caught by the bot detector.
I predict that if people make gh bots, a large fraction of them will be primitve
also, which translates into hueg bot penalties on those people.
However, I doubt that many gh bots will be made, because people will be wary and
follow the bot rules. However, of those that are made, a really high amount will
be penalized. So really, to solve all this trouble, I think gh should be removed.


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