Ban bots in the main chat

[whatifidogetcaught?]

This is how I picture people with obnoxious scripts must be. Please, before you drive other people away, just get rid of these scripts.

[Skotadi Phobos]

I hate bots with a passion, I wouldn't miss them.

[Zarathustra1883]

+rep, I would have asked for it today as well, Helstonninja. 

Beside the fact that they can be used to spam the chat with nonsense, the owner gains nothing from it but attention. Example zappy: using a bot to have it answer to the word BL. *facepalm* Now zappy leaves the computer for one of the millions of reasons and his bot answers to every challenge. The player looking for a match thinks he found someone, opens private chat just to get no response, annoying! Simple solution I had for him was to add the term BL to his notify list so that when someone looks for a match and he is at the computer it highlights/beeps/whatever the client does and he can respond to it. NO! NEED! FOR! A! BOT! PERIOD! I had to take BL of mine for the time because with all the nonsense BL spamming it got me angry to always switch to the chat for nothing but a bot.

I absolutely support the suggestion of banning bots from the chat.

[Jenkar]

The problem generally isn't the bots, the problem is people abusing the bots. Having said that, some sort of common sense should be used in what should be an acceptable script and what is not.

Example, welcoming scripts. Vrt and Pepokish have a script such that whenever someone says /me Waves, they both /me Waves back frantically! ..That's not annoying. That's adorable. As long as no one abuses it, which I've yet to see.

Blarp's script that causes him to say "Hello" every time anyone enters chat? Yeah, that's annoying.

The problem is that you're expecting common sense.

[Marsu]

I agree. Should be a no-brainer, really.

[Onizuka]

My current feeling on bot related things, in order of most dislike to least

People intentionally triggering a bot repeatedly>welcoming bots> general phrase triggering bots (dead chat, BL anyone, etc)>AveragePotato>Stuff like vrt wave

The only thing that really gets me are the first two, in that people join too much for a welcoming bot to not be stupid and that people that intentionally trigger a bot's activation repeatedly only serve to spam the chat when the bot normally would not be spamming chat. BL anyone is probably slightly higher than general phrase, though. Since so many people say it and the fact that if you play a person you can't play them again for 20hrs while it would still spam it.

The first is about as annoying as people who would get kicked from chat for doing what they are doing, the latter being people who don't get kicked for being annoying.

So honestly, I don't care about most bot use.

[Absol]

Can has bump?
Since this seem to be still an issue and not yet resolved.