Comments on: Bots Make Mockery of Traffic Statistics

By: Little Lost Linden

Little Lost Linden — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:08:37 +0000

With all this CEO nonsense, perhaps it is time for another great bot hunt.

By: Little Lost Linden

Little Lost Linden — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:50:25 +0000

I am 100% convinced that only 1 person in the whole wide world can stop the bots. That person is Pappy Enoch.

By: Cupcakes

Cupcakes — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:26:09 +0000

…..:::::::~~FLIRTINI Clothing Main Store~~:::::…… Came up in 6th place in the search engine when using the keyword women with a traffic score of over 63k. Upon tele’ing there I found an ill designed store with less then quality items for sale and not one actual person on the lot other then the owner herself. Looking at the map i saw about 60 green dots stacked on top of each other making a pole formation. I thought to myself this had to be one of those places using spamatars. I decided to fly around and see what i could find and yes you guessed it.. 64 spamatars with empty profiles with only one thing in common the flirtini store group at 3800m high in a box.

You’d think with all the bad rap about spamatars, one would not go to such lengths and risk their reputation only to lose everything but this just goes to show that most people lack dignity and being proud in ones self is less and less a desirable trait to have.

By: linda brynner

linda brynner — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:57:29 +0000

~25% is faked in SL like that

This is discovered within only 2 days. And abuse reprots to LL aren’t addressed as it does not serve that company.
To my best guess, ~25% in SL is faked traffic my region owners to get high in search. You only have to visit 50 places in sl and find out.

Anzere: group, Land Verwaltung
Amberville – **Club Industry open 24 hours**
Artisan Isle – Boogie Beach, bots on stage rented from Dance Island
ASD Studios
Breezes
Classic Rock: all avies are robots while no events or activity
Dance Island: huge pile on dance pads in region corners,
standing/dancing inside the club.
Also renting dance/traffic bots to others.
This region is the largest fake in sl.
Evanda Islands
Extravagant
Fierce Island
Garden City – Toby’s Juke Joint Club
HabitatSL
Kallisto World
Kilkenny – Aftermath Strip Club
Murinata – The Markus Hotel
JDs Estate
Phatland
Taravista – Female Clothes, group: Bulgaria
Quark

By: Quest Jarrico

Quest Jarrico — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:21:26 +0000

“I fail to see the big hooplah over this. So your faking traffic with bots. How is this any worse than paying noobs 2 tenths of a cent for 10 minutes do do the same thing for the same outcome?”

Well, first, believe me, I’ve always hated camping chairs and until bots came along, saw them as the sleaziest thing a landowner could do to boost their traffic. But compared to bots, campers are much better, at least to get campers to your sim, it involved a fair amount of advertising and business planning to get the sims name out and get people to come. Bots? You could have a private locked sim with no advertising become one of the top 10 most popular places in less than a week.

Now yeah, you might say that who cares it’s meaningless now, but that’s only to people like us who know about bots and camping and are jaded over the whole traffic system. New players however still buy into the farce until someone tells them about how the systems are gamed or until they figure it out themselves. So these people are getting undeserved business and undeserved attention with their undeserved traffic.

LL really should have taken out the entire traffic system a long time ago when it was first widespread gamed by camping places, but at least then there was a BIT of meaning because the camping places had to fight each other for campers and popularity, but now that it’s entirely 100% raped and left in an alley to die sort of meaningless, I hope they’ll reconsider and take the whole flawed broken system out.

By: Quest Jarrico

Quest Jarrico — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:52:28 +0000

“Yeah but clubs = traffic. REAL traffic.”

I just went to the Beyond Good & Evil club, and they have an astonishing stock of about 40 bots in the sky to bolster their traffic.

By: sn0wlady March

sn0wlady March — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:26:58 +0000

family..? LOL

By: Petar Ivanovic

Petar Ivanovic — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:36:53 +0000

I think it’s a pitty if this happens, But you cant stop it. Anyway for a Landlord it’s almost not doable checking if people have bots. Which are campers and which are bots. also i think. I’ve seen many places with high traffic go down, Because when i shop and i see campers, I just don’t shop there, u can notice right away it’s not popular.

By: Marx Dudek

Marx Dudek — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:03:36 +0000

I recently bought land in Lyralo, one of the new sims. I noticed a ton of traffic in the area of a shop selling little more than basic sculpties. Seeing that the traffic appeared to be above the shop, I threw on my MF and flew up to investigate. I found about fifty of these bots sitting in a builder’s box above the shop. Apparently this set off warning bells, because the owner (Loni Arado, a name that sounds familiar to a controversial skin-trader) flew up to investigate my investigation. He explained in broken English that they were “his family”. I didn’t think to file an abuse report at that moment, but apparently someone did – or he got skittish – because they disappeared shortly thereafter and hasn’t returned.

By: Bot Keelers R Us

Bot Keelers R Us — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:40:15 +0000

Ain’t gunna buy from noone what runs bots to up their traffic! In fact, I’m gonna remotely nuke the hell out of them if’n I finds them. Yeah sure, they’ll pop back but I’ll do it again. Gunna sic the posse on em. Ain’t playin with no system gamers! Mutha-fucks!