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100 PC points, 77 ranged, and that bot is still there!

I'm going to play something else for a bit, but oh boy that person better not still be there

15-Jul-2023 20:58:46 - Last edited on 16-Jul-2023 03:05:00 by Espionage724

15-Jul-2023 22:04:08 - Last edited on 16-Jul-2023 00:01:58 by Espionage724

Did a quest, and that bot is still there right now, almost 4 hours later after multiple reports. Hilarious incompetence

I planted some WIllow Trees to get ready to do Enlightened Journey. Yeah that's 4 hours of tree growing. Will that bot still be around for 8+ hours? Nope, seems they're gone finally after 4-5 hours of non-stop spam! Pest Control was the quietest I've ever seen it (except in RS3 where nobody plays it outside of spotlight )

15-Jul-2023 23:47:10 - Last edited on 16-Jul-2023 16:23:48 by Espionage724

Applejuiceaj said :
First things first, the forums don't allow for naming and shaming other players, regardless of reason. So that posts don't need to be removed, please edit the posts to remove the player's name .
Yep that's useful. I can see some scenarios why that would be a rule, but that's cool that you'd rather protect a spammer and be part of the problem. Am I causing more of a problem than RWT spammers by naming and shaming them? Maybe a friend of that account may have seen this post and could have told the real account holder.

Applejuiceaj said :
...that particular player is not a level 3 throwaway, so looks to be hijacked, which goes back to the point that Jagex should secure it, rather than flat out ban it. That way the owner can recover it and hopefully take steps to secure it.
Yeah I'm sure that owner will come back after some days if ever to recover their account. They were in such a rush to get to it when it happened after all ignoring email notifications! In the meantime, the hijacker should get free-reign to break rules and disrupt my gameplay, because... what? Is their money better than mine? Premier btw

Applejuiceaj said :

Given its hijacked, it needs manual intervention, not automatic intervention.
That's even more reason for automatic intervention. Account gets hijacked, logged into a new location and IP, repeats the same Discord RWT spam over-and-over consistently, for 4+ hours, after multiple reports. Yeah nothing suspicious about that activity, just let that account continue disruptive behavior because the owner might return.

Jagex will ban for macroing and limit appeals on this based on their own sometimes flawed automated moderation and discretion. But I as a paying player going out of my way to manually report an obvious rule-breaker can't do anything aside from lowering my performance with a massive ignore list? Lol

16-Jul-2023 04:09:16 - Last edited on 19-Jul-2023 16:44:36 by Espionage724

Applejuiceaj said :
The other thing here is it reads like you're expecting that a report is going to be read instantly and dealt with, 6 games of pest control doesn't take that long.

If a player is being reported more than 2 times, and is obviously engaging in spam that can easily be detected, yeah someone should take the few minutes to actually look at a report. $11 btw. Multiple hours btw. Multiple manual reports btw. I couldn't have highlighted that bot more clearly in system logs.

This is not an issue in any other AAA MMORPG. Not the free or cheap GW2, and not the $4 more a month WoW or FFXIV. Spammers get obliterated in short order, and the same names certainly aren't sitting around multiple hours later with multiple reports and a loud forum post. I don't remember the last time I manually reported in any of those games even

Applejuiceaj said :

You likely won't see Jagex staff hopping worlds looking for that type of stuff either, since they have other tools at their disposal to pick up on that type of activity behind the scenes (and if they were ingame doing that sort of thing, they'd probably set their player visibility to invisible so they don't get swarmed).

They don't have to hop the entire world list. Pest Control is only on 344, and the spam largely only happens right near the boats. There's endless ideas to implement to filter spam in such an isolated area.

People aren't always available, I get it. I'm sure someone was around during that 4+ hour non-sense and just didn't find it a priority, but whatever; hope that $11 was covering a decent cocktail. But even someone living under a rock has surely heard of AI nowadays; go find some HS programmer who likes OSRS, give em a few hours, and I'm sure they can have some functional automatic moderation of such simple spam that's better than... obviously nothing.

16-Jul-2023 04:10:13 - Last edited on 16-Jul-2023 16:17:33 by Espionage724

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