Inflammatory name-calling aside, Peregrine's not calling for a witch hunt that indiscriminately bans everyone based on mere accusations.

There are many ways to prove botting. Automated third party programs have a pattern to their behavior that is VERY uncharacteristic of a real, live human. Futhermore, it's pretty easy to tell if someone has made a simple input macro, or just taped down their turbo button since the inputs received by the server are always constant with no variation.

This information, in addition with multiple player reportings, along with actual GM observance and interaction makes a pretty irrefutable case for action to be taken against a certain account.

SE letting everyone bot to their heart's content is stupid.
SE banning people for the slightest of circumstantial evidence is stupid too.

No one is advocating any of those positions, although a lot of you seem to think the other person is.

You guys need to stop thinking that the other guys is arguing for one extreme or the other, because you're not.


Carry on.