[edon1337]

Hi!

Some people are Messaging me saying there's lots of Advertising Bots in their Servers, I tried creating an Anti-Ad for them but they said it works only on Real Players and not on Bots.. Nothing works against them. Any ideas? I know you will tell me not to support No-Steam servers but this is an enigma and I'm curious why it's impossible to mute these bots.

[Relaxing]

Block all the messages for bots. No one cares what they say.

[edon1337]

Originally Posted by Relaxing Block all the messages for bots. No one cares what they say.

1) They're bots with real player characteristics. They have a SteamID. So you can't tell whether they're SpamBots.
2) If you read my post carefully and look at my code you'll see that I've already tried blocking their messages through say and say_team.

[aron9forever]

Originally Posted by edon1337 1) They're bots with real player characteristics. They have a SteamID. So you can't tell whether they're SpamBots. 2) If you read my post carefully and look at my code you'll see that I've already tried blocking their messages through say and say_team.

Ban their steamID then

[edon1337]

Originally Posted by aron9forever Ban their steamID then

And again, if you looked at my code you'd see there's a ban option, the problem is that 'say' and 'say_chat' don't even get called when Bots are talking, so I'm unable to do anything against them. When I type 'Add Ip' in chat both kick and ban options work but it doesn't work when those SpamBots say it.

[wickedd]

It should be possible to block them.
I didn't look at your code because the best solution is to not allow them to join the server in the first place.

[aron9forever]

Originally Posted by edon1337 And again, if you looked at my code you'd see there's a ban option, the problem is that 'say' and 'say_chat' don't even get called when Bots are talking, so I'm unable to do anything against them. When I type 'Add Ip' in chat both kick and ban options work but it doesn't work when those SpamBots say it.

I'm just not advertising this shit here, since it's not allowed. I wrote a protection for xFakePlayers a while ago that was able to mute them just fine (first was with a captcha, sort of like the /chat plugin, later I replaced it with heuristics)

you say the bots resemble real players too much, how the hell can you say "say" isn't hooked then? You're just making a mistake somewhere and suffer from confirmation bias


anyways, so you don't say im just talking shit, and hoping I won't get banned for this, I'll just say that if you install everything that you should for your server then you wouldn't need such protections as the bots are filtered by modules

[edon1337]

Originally Posted by aron9forever I'm just not advertising this shit here, since it's not allowed. I wrote a protection for xFakePlayers a while ago that was able to mute them just fine (first was with a captcha, sort of like the /chat plugin, later I replaced it with heuristics) you say the bots resemble real players too much, how the hell can you say "say" isn't hooked then? You're just making a mistake somewhere and suffer from confirmation bias anyways, so you don't say im just talking shit, and hoping I won't get banned for this, I'll just say that if you install everything that you should for your server then you wouldn't need such protections as the bots are filtered by modules

You seem mad, I never said you were talking 'sh*t'?! You just were talking no-sense. I see you have no idea what I'm talking about so just pass. Also it's not my server.

Originally Posted by wickedd It should be possible to block them. I didn't look at your code because the best solution is to not allow them to join the server in the first place.

Should be possible. How to filter real Players from Spambots?

[HamletEagle]

Originally Posted by edon1337 You seem mad, I never said you were talking 'sh*t'?! You just were talking no-sense. I see you have no idea what I'm talking about so just pass. Also it's not my server. Should be possible. How to filter real Players from Spambots?

Do not allow them to join in the first place: remove dproto. Even if "say" is not triggered for fakeplayers it's not our problem.
End of story.