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Well my friend I think you and a few others could stand to cut some ties. If you're going to be so effected by these little squabbles on this forum then I'm afraid you're in for a lot more hard times down the road. Letting this kind of petty crap get to you is no good, and believe me it's definitely petty. I've been to forums where I've known and chatted with a person for years, only to hear about a news article writing that he shot himself in the head on a beach. Of course I was sad because of it, but I didn't make any sort of big deal about it. Life goes on dude, this stuff is nothing. The community is still very much alive. Like someone said they've only banned a handful of people, and most of them came forward themselves.

If there is going to be a group thing made about this opinion, im in.

What seperates a botter from a legit? the bot. There is still a living breathing person. What separates a black man from a white man? His skin, but both are living breathing, feeling things. Do they not deserve the same respect.

Again, this is SG's forum, what he does is his and his teams choice. But by destroying the backbone of the community, I see a different, non discriminatory forum rising to take the place as sro's fan site. Hard to have a fan site if 95% of the fans are not allowed.



Nah, i dont care too much, im just making a point here. Besides, since when does war last a few days? Casualties are still to come...a lot more.

We have a different perspective. I felt that the community started going downhill as the botting became more prevalent. Look at the posts from a year ago. People were lamenting the downfall of SRF because of botters. That's when the "no botting accusation" policy was put in place.

Unfortunately, botters used the policy as a shield. Then they became more bold and started ridiculing legits. "You have no life...Legits whine too much" ad nauseum. The legits responded with flames. They were pissed. Many moved to other forums because they were sick of being flame-baited and ridiculed by botters.

Blasjr was the last straw. He was an obvious botter and denied it while taunting Fly and Avalon constantly. So Fly caught him (not that it was hard) and posted the screen shots. Fly, in the adorable way he does, added some colorful language about the state of SRF. SG saw it the same way and decided he'd rather ban botters than ban legits for flaming botters.

Yeah, Blasjr was an asshole and deserved to be banned. But he represented and attitude that was (and still is) gaining traction among the SRF community: botting isn't bad, it's the legits that are bad. Either they're whining (before Avalon dominated a server) or they're arrogant jerks (after Avalon dominated a server).

I hope that every botter who gets banned here makes a new account and plays legit and comes back and described the fun they have playing this game. What a great community that would be, eh?

EDIT: dam...so many posts since I started this

A handful of moronic botters gives em all a bad rep. I know many botters, more than i care to take the time to count or give a ballpark estimate. Nearly all of them are nice people. The assholes i kill, just as i kill asshole legits. I know many legits, many are nice, but just the same, there are complete asshole legits.

lol

Its like this.

Botters are like lepers.

At first everyone is like, "EWE! LEPERS!"

Then some ppl are like, "OMG My best butt buddy is a leper, accept lepers nao"

So the lepers start circulating with everyone else and infecting the general population.

Then someone comes along and says, "Hey, there is already like a million leper colonies! Instead of being here with us, let the lepers go over there!"

That guy who's butt buddy is a leper is like, "DISCRIMINATION AGAINST LEPERS!"

But in the interest of public safety, everyone starts hunting down the lepers and sending them packing for the greater good. Sure, the community will be smaller for a minute, but fortunately there is a steady stream of shiny clean new members all the time to replace them.

The end.

Nice story, huh?

And the first post will be:

non ego man: I admit it...

I am an asshole

Players are the ones who will be turning the gears though, since without their proof nobody gets banned. This whole "war" is based their actions. Blame them if the forum gets ruined, and for ruining the game, don't blame the admins. Still the number of those exposed is very very low, and I doubt it will grow that much. As soon as this initial whinefest dies down this forum will probably rarely get used.

No because you sensored it terribly. You forgot the part that colony is still infected with lepers, and theres a constant incoming stream of more lepers and it all happens over again. The end.

yeah, but your solution is let everyone become a leper so no one feels left out.

As I said numerous times before: First they are people, then they're botters. But rules are rules and even if someone with 1 post gets caught it's still a victory on my book.

No, my solution is to let everyone choose for themselves, and to kill the lepers that are being a pain in the ass.

That view basically says it's fine for someone to come here and shout "I'm a bot I'm a bot!" but so long as no one is pissed off, they're fine.

~___~

kill those damn leper jumping the wall and trying to kiss your daugher and rape your cow.

no, however i love avalon's ability to take any quote and throw it around to make it something else.

You didn't understand what you said then.

nightbloom's story referred to bots as lepers, as you probably guessed, saying that you need to eliminate the problem. You said it's fine for someone to choose for themselves and only kill the pains in the ass. In this case as a forum, kill = ban. Now with the analogy, you're either a bot or a not. The bots get banned. Using the same reversal on what you said, you said they can either bot or not, and be here saying they bot or don't bot, but you're fine so long as they don't piss you off.

Proofreading your own work is always the first step to making sure you immunise yourself against anything which can be turned against you. Have a nice day.

I can agree to that. I know there are plenty of botters who are genuinely nice people, and I'm sad to hear that they bot. Botting is cheating, and if you cheat, you don't belong in the game. SRF mod team can't ban them from the game, but they can ban them from the forums.

Why should people, even nice people, who consistently break the rules - especially when it negatively affects the people who don't break the rules - not be banned?

The rules are the rules. SRF takes the stance of not supporting botting. It wouldn't make sense for them to shelter known botters, even if said botters are nice people.

If your sweet, loving little grandma is in a nice restaurant with a no smoking policy, and she's constantly lighting up a cigarette, should management let her stay? She's so nice and loved by all. At least with grandma, they can tell her "stop smoking" and can verify that she is in compliance every time she's there. You can't do that with a bot.

Start with Nightbloom and all of Avalon... Biggest assholes on the forum imo. Except Belgareth.. only decent guy in that guild.

I'm glad i quit the game before I was to into it... From the info I gathered in the game its the Legits that are the dumbass assholes and the bots who are laid back chill people.

This War on Bots was a Big fail. I agree with all Vindicator has said he along with a few other people are the ones who are left with any sense...

ur generalsing (is it a word?) crazy fanatic 24/7 gamer are annoying.

aka hardcore legit / hardcore botter

I happen to agree With Mr.fudge on the matter, and seeing now that all this is going on, SRF GD is totally messed atm. Theres too many flames and shit going on. This is turning into SRT, which sucks. I joined this forum shortly after i joined SRO, back in the day And have to say like JoyMax its been going down hill. If there wasn't suppose to be botters on this forum than why allow them to come in, in the first place? You can't give me the i don't know speech, you simply turned your head, which is what JoyMax is doing now. But i guess yea got tired of all the people complaining about the closest botters on this forum, so you decide to make a stand, by doing so yea you Kicked botters from this forum, but also lowered the experience and Over all standards of this forum. Most of the people you guys banned where knowledgeable people who have seem playing SRO for some years now. And know what there doing and knew how to help and guide new players into SRO, But now that there gone all i see is whinnying threads, "Solution" threads, or some really messed up ones(When did GD turn into Q&A?)Anyways like the game i can't see this forum lasting much longer anyways, So i respect your guys move to kick the botters, but at what cost will it come to? I guess time will tell. No matter what Like Sro i don't think this forum can truly get rid of all the bots, people will simply make new accounts with different I.P's etc and have already done so, and are working they way into this community again. So Good Luck with the Witch hunt, hope we still got members left.

In all seriousness I think all the fücking assholes who register just to report ought to get banned. The botters who still play should get banned.
I'm starting to like typing with umlauts.

People like Luoma etc shouldn't be banned. They don't play anymore who cares and they've proven to be good members of this community, I mean they've behaved nicely that they've even earned a mod rank, that trust they've earned isn't something to earn in a few minutes and can go because of a few minutes.
Its like someone getting married and living very happily for many years have many children. Suddenly the husband realises the wife used to be a prostitute and says 'get the fück ot my hoose' and its all ruined. Bad example but you get the point.

People might tackle me with, 'omg you bot' but to clear that shit up, the link I posted aint me but it's what thisisavalon found and sent me.

Maybe I sound like a hypocrite when I say this even though I've already verbally 'persecuted' several people. But the Nazi thing isn't meant for offense to anything other than the continuous bans of good people of the community.

thank you for posting this! you are a rare breed of people who don't agree with the EXPOSED BOTS and i thank you for it.

f*ck SRF right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBeSOvI4zWM

i like you but sometimes you really need to make up your mind.

Lol, I must emphasize..

AT WHAT COST?!!, at what costt?!?!

most ppl who actually deserve a ban for botting were probably smart enough to at least use a different username when they went to bot forums and what not. Its not a hard thing to do. Im sorry if i didn't follow certain members of Olympus around everywhere they went to SS them in action or not depending on how you look at it. This banning this ridiculous. The real closet botters will get away with botting just like they have always done and the only ppl who we'll lose will be the ones who weren't smart enough to hide it. Fudge is right, there are ppl who we KNOW without a doubt botted their asses all over that game but we lack sufficient evidence to prove it so they'll get away with it which is fair, completely fair....but that doesn't make it right.


Same shite different day. Closet botters should be taking a bow they've already stolen the show.

I may not agree with What there doing however i don't have much say. All i am doing is bringing up the fact that HEY this problem was here since day 1, and By taking away experience members without new ones will leave avoid that i think will never be filled. You can Look in GD rate now and find at least 10 threads of people making stupid replies that aren't even relavent to the topic that was posted, than you have to even more stupid who take there time to point this out, which than gets the first idiot to comment on it (Ah the cycle of idiots at SRF) This is what it has been like for a while now, and now that you are banning botters, most of the ones who had an I.Q to post a interest or intelligent reply are banned. So By at what cost i mean, yes were getting rid of bots, but the forum will suffer greatly. Who knows i may be wrong, or i may be right. As i said time will tell.