So sad - The bots are back!!!

[Ajax]

[QUOTE=porg69;11916790]Look up the terminology and code of harrassment in any work place. The fact that I feel like I’m being harassed by you regardless of you saying you haven’t harassed me is irrelevant.
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I am only responding to thebpounts you make against me in your posts. How is that harassment?

Your manager if unbiased would think differently as well. You’re unprofessional in your conduct and is not becoming of the position you hold.

Like all of the moderators here, I am not a professional, I am a volunteer, doing the role in my spare time.

The fact that you have threatened me for stating my opinion shows you’re are not in control and feel threatened thus overreacting and overreaching to compensate your lack of judgement and experience.

The fact here is that I have not threatened you at all. I am very sorry if you took anything I said as implying any sort of threat. The mention of infractions was not tgreating you might get one, it was just letting you know I was trying to be reasonable. And still am.

Statng you haven’t put word in my mouth is false. You misrepresented my statement and tried to influence the discussion to your advantage.

Please give me some insight as to what else you could possibly have ment by those words then. I really cannot read your words as meaning anything other than saying Cowslips was justifying bots.

If you meant something else, then I apologise, but you really should have been clearer.

[Greencheese]

I just wrote to SC and asked them to look at this thread because of the posts by the moderators.

[udderly]

^^^ yes, an impartial 3rd party might be best. Must confess to reading the response to porg and thinking "ouch" at how it came across.

[Pix201A]

I’m keeping my comment short - I agree with mdcfc re mods reply. Scrolling back, it felt like the mod went on the offensive re porg69 comments. Regurgitating standard SC’s reply on bots is not helping either. I understand porg69’s or anyone else’s frustrations as my farms are currently infected again with the L bot for the 2nd time in less than 3 months, and messages to ingame support seem to disappear. That’s all I have to add here.

[YvonneZissou]

Please take this fight somewhere else guys.
Do this private.

[Ajax]

I just wrote to SC and asked them to look at this thread because of the posts by the moderators.

^^^ yes, an impartial 3rd party might be best. Must confess to reading the response to porg and thinking "ouch" at how it came across.

I’m keeping my comment short - I agree with mdcfc re mods reply. Scrolling back, it felt like the mod went on the offensive re porg69 comments. Regurgitating standard SC’s reply on bots is not helping either. I understand porg69’s or anyone else’s frustrations as my farms are currently infected again with the L bot for the 2nd time in less than 3 months, and messages to ingame support seem to disappear. That’s all I have to add here.

I will accept that my initial response was pretty strong.

But given that it was a response to what I read as him saying Cowslips was justifying bots (i.e. justifying cheating), I think it deserved a pretty strong response. And I still cannot see what else he might have meant by that comment.

Everything I have written since then has been purely responding to his points about me - and yes, I agree it would have been better kept private than posted here. I probably should have responded to his first response by PM rather than a post here.

[Greebie0]

First, the bots have perfectly legitimate accounts, they aren't just gaining unauthorised access to Supercell's games. That much they can and do stop. But at the same time, there is no real security in the setting up of game accounts with Supercell - and nor should there be with a free to play mobile game.

Once you are in the account, all the bots are doing is what you could do, but very much faster and more efficiently. If you can't steal money from somebody else's bank account, neither could a bot. They just mimic touches/clicks/typing.

So if you stop a bot from taking from your RSS, you also stop other players from doing so.

I think the point is that bots obviously are doing things we couldn't do. Namely, access the shop of a farm who isn't on their friends', helpers' or followers list. And which isn't close to them on the boat list, and outside events. A shop which isn't selling anything in the paper.

So there seems to be some sort of secret backdoor which I very much hope Supercell would close. Soon.

[Chipfarm]

Haha, funny string. I agree Steve.
Back to the point, I have my first confirmed bot in a long time. Not sure if I've been lucky dodging them or they're just making a comeback. I hope they're never ignored. Should be task number 1 for the SC team.
Thanks Aardvark for posting your experience and a summary on patterns you've picked up. They've definitely gotten smarter. Mine is buying random things other than upgrade tools. And there is a picture associated with the farm - anyone else seeing that?

[Ajax]

I think the point is that bots obviously are doing things we couldn't do. Namely, access the shop of a farm who isn't on their friends', helpers' or followers list. And which isn't close to them on the boat list, and outside events. A shop which isn't selling anything in the paper.

So there seems to be some sort of secret backdoor which I very much hope Supercell would close. Soon.

I'm not convinced they are doing something impossible for a normal user, they are just doing it on a scale and speed impossible for real humans. And using tricks that most of us aren't aware of.

[Aardvark10]

Haha, funny string. I agree Steve.
Back to the point, I have my first confirmed bot in a long time. Not sure if I've been lucky dodging them or they're just making a comeback. I hope they're never ignored. Should be task number 1 for the SC team.
Thanks Aardvark for posting your experience and a summary on patterns you've picked up. They've definitely gotten smarter. Mine is buying random things other than upgrade tools. And there is a picture associated with the farm - anyone else seeing that?

i did post a photo of the L-bot level 7 tag farm here....we’ve noticed that similar alphabet and numeric farms look exactly the same, even if they’re levels higher.
https://forum.supercell.com/showthre...he-P-bot/page5

I also noticed another forum person post that she found one among her Facebook friend farms when doing the random accept anyone thing that people do to unlock rss slots....and that makes me think that these cheaters are actively seeking out new farms to friend from Facebook accounts too which is nasty....i disactivated FB when supercell ID came out happily.

Interestingly, although I’ve been surfing the DD a bit less lately, I have seen less of the tag farms lately.