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Tiger's view on the new botting announcement:
Lanzer Hello everyone,
We've always been thinking of how to give more opportunities for you to earn gold, and recently we've increased the gold earning for PM, posting, commenting, and many other activities on Gaia. We'll soon be making more quests to give even more opportunities to earn gold also. Though on the downside, some people had found the new gold earning system as a way to exploit the site. They run bots which spam the site, and sell the gold for profit. These botters need to be stopped, and today there will be changes in the PM system to stop the botters.
The botting activities had caused our database to slow down, they cause a large amount of gold to be granted, making prices in the marketplace to skyrocket, and not to mention filling people's inbox with spam.
We are doing a lot in fighting botting activities, and I'm sorry to say that in the process, we will need to disable the "friends@gaia" feature which allows users to PM everyone on their friendslists. On top of that, gold granting for PM will be disabled also.
None of us wish to take away opportunities for you to earn gold, and we will be implementing other ways to earn gold on Gaia as well as make adjustments to the gold earning system to grant more gold on the side. Though more importantly, let's make Gaia free of spam and botters first.
Please be patient while we tackle the botting problems. We'll continue to make Gaia great, one step at a time.
-Lanzer
And then, there's profiting from botted gold. If I get a donation from someone who got botted gold, how should I know of it? Or an item they got with botted gold? The whole thing is ludacris(sp). I think I'm lucky I don't make gold fast. God knows they'd think I was botting.
I dunno... the whole botting thing just rubs me the wrong way.
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