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I really really think this was the wrong way to approach dealing with botters at SRF

If he's referring to the chaos, I agree with him.
Other than that I think it was about time SRF did something about this bot problem.

I can't really think of a better way to handle this. Sure, there is a lot of chaos right now, but I think the chaos will die down a bit after some time.

It's unfortunate that some well known, active, helpful people here either got caught botting, confessed, or at least had accusations brought up on them. However, rules are rules. If SRF wants to take a stand against botting, and get botters off of here, they can't play favorites. They can't just let certain botters stay here because they are nice, helpful people that contribute greatly to the community.

What message would that say to the botters? "It's ok if you continue botting, as long as you step up to the plate and start contributing to this community, make some guides, etc."?

If you break the rules, you shouldn't stay. Stop breaking them and maybe, just maybe, you could come back. People have been unbanned before.

I think I explained in detail in the botters forum, but I think that by blaring out to everyone that we're gonna kill the botters off in SRF is going to prevent us from catching them even more. Sure, there will be some confessions, like buddhabless but the majority will cut their connections with any public sites like ign or xfire to keep their botting a secret. After everyone settles down with the new exposed botters forum and after the majority of the botters just casually say they botted, theres not gonna be much to do to find botters. I mean how many botters are going to post themselves botting on youtube or begin telling people on ign they botted?

i would also like to say that i would agree that banning the bots that are harmless to THIS forum is the wrong way to get as to take care of a SILKROAD ONLINE problem.

The problem with that is, this SRF war on bots thing isn't meant to take care of the Silkroad Online problem.

It's meant to take care of the SRF problem - clean out the botters from the forums since it is against the rules here. They shouldn't really be here.

Maybe this initiative will have an effect in game, but I don't believe that is the main purpose.

WHAT PROBLEM WAS THERE!?!?! bot were never a problem as a direct threat to this individual forum, but people like you and many others just seem to see some problem that is still invisible to me.

I guess the bots themselves didn't cause any direct problems to these forums for the most part. However, I think SRF either needed to crack down on their "anti-bot" policy, or remove that policy. To me, it seems to send mixed messages to claim to be anti-bot, but still allow players that you know bot to remain on these forums simply because they didn't admit to botting.