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onestay42yesterday at 8:33 PM2 repliesview on HN

Not all humans are in their right minds, unfortunately.


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skinfaxiyesterday at 11:56 PM

This is exactly the point I saw in a recent x post, that building anti-bot detection was incredibly difficult because some people exhibit bot like behavior.

Blizzard employee once told me anti-botting in WoW was extremely challenging due to the number of real people that acted identically to bots.

Every assumption was invalidated: - unbelievable # of consecutive hours played - consistently repetitive patterns of movement and clicks - farming patterns that aren’t considered fun (“why would anyone do that”) - solo, no external engagement - goes on for months

The problem with botting is many humans ARE bots

https://x.com/IceSolst/status/2076372992959959493

cwmooreyesterday at 9:29 PM

It is much harder to tell one from the other, and for oneself, than it often seems on the surface.