Macro manipulation using 3rd party scripts, is it botting?

[KisaiTenshi]

This is not even remotely true.

Next you're going to tell me that people are't randomly inviting people to FC's. The point of that comment was, "where are your eyes looking", if a GM starts talking to you, where are your eyes?

I take it you've never used synapse or the other brand equivalents to any depth? You can make some incredibly long macros with super varied timings. Also using Synapse itself isn't even remotely ban worthy since most players with custom keys on their keyboards/mouse use it or another similar program. I mean unless I'm wrong and changing keys on my mouse to modifiers like shift and ctrl is a banable offense.

When I worked for a certain company, the company built hundreds of macros in a program called Macro Express in order to speed up the delivery of everything from stock responses to ticking boxes in web-browser based CRM software. So yes, I've used macro software in a professional environment, and have written macros to customize the responses, or even read peoples email and generate responses based on context of what email path was followed.

That said, the average person is not a genius, and you're making it out like these macro programs can read someone's mind. No, the reality is that the average person downloads things they find on the internet and doesn't know what they are really doing, only that someone they found on the internet said they "use this", therefor it must be kosher.

If someone is handicapped, and the macro improves their QoL, and then one day they get banned because they decided to run their macro 3 ilms away from the marketboard, bell, or aethertyte (which is what the spamming bots do) and got reported a dozen times, then that is on them for being ridiculous. If you're going to go break the ToS, go break it somewhere where you're not seen by 20 people constantly.

90% of the amateur-hour bots out there use an easy to find open source macro program that is capable of triggering anything in the Windows API itself, this is what the spam bots use.