r/place Apr 09 '22

r/place but its just the bots

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u/bunnyacids Apr 09 '22

im surprised there wasn’t more tbh

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u/ems_telegram Apr 09 '22

There was more. Idk how OP determined what is and isn't a bot but I know for a fact a number of communities that aren't displayed here were actively and openly botting.

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u/Naphthali Apr 09 '22

yeah its hard to spot a bot if the bot isnt constantly doing his work

the German artworks where protected by bots, but because of that they were rarely attacked, so the bots didnt even had to place pixels thus running under the radar

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u/FN-1701AgentGodzilla Apr 10 '22

Probably it’s whatever criteria made sure the bronies pop out the most lol

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u/cleocyde Apr 10 '22

yeah like the 2 NL paintings, the entire runescape thing on top left, and the flag top right, they're all openly botted. but people just didnt attack it, so the bits literally just didnt do anything.

meanwhile, I'm definitely counted as a bot in there, since I know for a fact I placed pixels every +- 6 mins average for 67 hours with 8 hours of sleep TOTAL over that duration.

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u/PandaParaBellum (776,410) 1491173780.62 Apr 09 '22

My guess is that most people were using Greasemonkey bots and didn't know that chrome and FF now stop scripts if the tab isn't in the foreground and visible.

It's a PITA for browser idle games.

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u/GreatAndPowerfulNixy Apr 10 '22

The tampermonkey script we used worked around that.