Just a nifty 0x0F trick

[Cat Food]

...That's just circular though... One could do other things in the time one would use to "attempt to stop floodbots". Things that would improve one's skill to a greater degree... like taking advanced programming classes...

He is right though...many skills have improved due to keeping up with the warring. and floodbots can have a purpose. If you have a good flood like cell that drops just about every user in a channel, that's perfect for regaining ops in a channel you lost.


Edit, and just for the record. I do not flood or load.

[topaz]

Everything has a use. Maybe because of floodbots, some people have worked harder in their code at making attempts to stopping floodbots to a certain extent? Doing so would improve their skill level in coding and maybe that person would one day become important or more important to the community by being able to share their achieved skills with others.

...That's just circular though... One could do other things in the time one would use to "attempt to stop floodbots". Things that would improve one's skill to a greater degree... like taking advanced programming classes...

Rofl.

[UserLoser]

But you do realize pretty much every beginner coder has. Wether it made it big or not is not the point though. And I'm not arguing with you, I'm just saying.

No, I do not realize.  If a "beginner coder" can make a bot that logs onto Battle.net, then this community has gone to crap--I mean, it already did go to crap because of things like this.

When I was a beginner coder I was making things like Tic Tac Toe.  You have to realize that "beginner coders" can not make a Battle.net binary bot.  It's just a fact.  The only way things like that happen (and still do today) is people just copy/paste galore, it's rediculous.

[RealityRipple]

Oo, I made tic tac toe, too! that was fun. However, UL, "beginners" can create bots with things like EZBNCS, CleanSlate (though, I guess that's not quite the same), etc... Also, it's not just programming experience, it's network theory knowledge that defines how easily a programmer understands the Bnet Logon System.

[Kp]

What uses do they have? I don't see any point in them at all except as an annoyance.

Everything has a use. Maybe because of floodbots, some people have worked harder in their code at making attempts to stopping floodbots to a certain extent? Doing so would improve their skill level in coding and maybe that person would one day become important or more important to the community by being able to share their achieved skills with others.

This is an unfortunate attempt to apply the broken window fallacy by assuming that the good of time and skill spent combating flood bots is free, when in fact it takes away from other goods, such as time spent learning a new language or adding a truly useful feature to one's work.