Rewarding BotCatchers Like SukitTrebek
 

First of all kudos to SukitTrebek. He looks to have done a great deal of detective work and service to poker community. Also, I'd like to see more of this being done. It would probably be a good idea to encourage more of this if we in the twoplustwo community would each send these botcatchers like SukitTrebek some nominal amount of money, maybe 10 or 20 bucks.

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I think thats a pretty bad idea. Would just turn into a witch hunt

also can we not have 500 threads about this issue?

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I think thats a pretty bad idea. Would just turn into a witch hunt

also can we not have 500 threads about this issue?

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I was going to use the exact same phrase... "witch hunt"

bad idea.

Notoriety is often its own reward, especially in online communities.

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Should it not be the site doing the rewarding?

I had the same idea when the party bots were caught but as alobar has mentioned,it would be an ugly scene.

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I'd probably make more turning myself in as a bot than playing poker. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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also can we not have 500 threads about this issue?


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Yea, it's crowding out all the great posts about "How do I deposit/withdraw?"

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I also think it's probably not the best idea.
But if I was on board I would send him $texas.

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Should it not be the site doing the investigating?

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FYP

A reward for individuals that find bots is a bad idea, but Trebek should have never had to do this kind of thing in the first place. The sites should either publicly admit that bots are allowed, or clean up the bots themselves.

Trebek's post proves that some sites cannot be trusted to do this. So maybe we need to create an independent bot investigating group. If online poker is ever regulated, sites should fund this group or be denied an operating license.

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i can def out some bots if the price is right.

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havent the UBots already been outed?

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im pretty sure i know about more.

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anyone who outs a botter should get modship if the caught botter is a mod!

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im pretty sure i know about more.

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tell me, i can give u like 5 bucks

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like if this type of thing is allowed, it won't be online poker anymore.

it will just be a computer programming competition to see who can make the best bot

which is bs

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Guys,

You need to do some research at the forums frequented by botters.

The good bots are not making the mistakes that full_tilter did. You will not catch the good bot farms in this way.

Go get a WinHoldem forum handle then post some semi-intelligent theory discussion. You'll have plenty of these bad bot owners spilling their guts to you in no time. Just like human players, 75% of them are stupid and doing the same obvious things as full_tilter. 25% of them, though, are smart and totally undetectable by fellow players in any method I've read in the monster, main thread.

You are trying to stop international drug trafficking by arresting 5 stoners sharing a dime bag at a Phish concert.

Stopping the idiots is easy. Not only are they easily discovered, but they are fresh and new...they don't have established profit rolling in and are easily deterred.

Take a guy making $200k+ a year mining micro limits, and it is a different story. The sad fact is that neither we, nor the sites, are as intent on stopping him as he is in protecting his earn.

The poker world needs to stop thinking of botters as 16 year old script kiddies. We are at least a year beyond that. I've yet to hear a suggestion to stopping a sophisticated botter that could not be overcome by throwing $5,000 at some Eastern European rent-a-coder. That's assuming the bot owner isn't a sophisticated programmer himself.

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You are trying to stop international drug trafficking by arresting 5 stoners sharing a dime bag at a Phish concert.

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5 guys arent going to get very stoned off a dimebag.

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BotCatchers? LOL. Sorry but he didn't catch no bots bro.

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5 guys arent going to get very stoned off a dimebag.

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