Bot in NN chat really got out of control

[TalithaSolarien]

Even if you kick them out of the NN spouts that have joined the NN in the past will automatically rejoin 30 minutes later, no Mentor required.

[dspguy]

We've been seeing this on Leviathan for a few months. I counted about 90 Level 50-52 BRDs, all in Amdapor Keep. Nearly all with two character first names and random character last names. Many (not all) enter "0" into chat. The rest are silent (I guess their script isn't doing this).
The only power mentors have in the NN is to kick them every 30 minutes until they come back.

The problem is multi-fold.

• They spam the chat
• They are breaking the TOS which is not being enforced by SE (plenty of threads on that already)
• The list is growing and eventually there will be too many bots to allow in actually legit novices

If SE refuses to address this and we reach the point where there are 412 bots in channel, then SE should just remove NN as a failed experiment. And it wouldn't be Novice Network that failed. It would be SE that failed the players.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

A part of me speculated that some folks probably invited those bots purposely into the network to raise the bots visibility so that SE finally inclined to make their move before the media makes too much fuss out of this lol.

[Minali]

A part of me speculated that some folks probably invited those bots purposely into the network to raise the bots visibility so that SE finally inclined to make their move before the media makes too much fuss out of this lol.

Intended or not, if it works out and maybe even does make fuss in the media, maybe it will help? Not very optimistic considering for how long people have been vocal about the bots in other places and written tons of reports, like Eureka, without getting any reaction. (But of course the NN reaches a lot of people that wouldn't care about this side content, so who knows?)