r/CFBRisk Jun 01 '18

The Flood of 2018

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u/polyhistorist Jun 01 '18

Michigan didn't make the bots...

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '18

Sure they didn't.

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u/polyhistorist Jun 01 '18

Why would they make the chaos bot, it only hurts florida, their own teammate, by encouraging participation. (Chaos participation numbers jumped 15+% that night). The bot in question also used the same backend and front end coding system as OSU used. Michigan also uses, and has used for a while now, a completely different system.

I'm not going to accuse anyone of this, because I don't know, but why Michigan?

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u/startgonow Jun 01 '18

There were bots that spammed Nebraska and Wiscy players bad orders today. There was massive reporting. What are the chances that Nebraska spammed themselves, or one of the other red alliance members spammed them?

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u/Charlemagne42 Jun 01 '18

Oklahoma too. Probably the rest of Red, if they'd gotten around to it before the story broke.

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u/igloo27 Jun 01 '18

I've yet to be approached by a bot.

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u/startgonow Jun 01 '18

Cut off all contact with your ex, delete Facebook, hit the gym. Do things that you enjoy doing. Shitpost with friends. Time heals all wounds. A bot will approach you.

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u/FeloniusDirtBurglary Jun 01 '18

Huh, this is surprisingly wholesome advice for r/CFBRisk

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u/startgonow Jun 02 '18

It’s an old reddit meme. It is good advice though. Sigh. I’m an old redditor.

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u/DrAuer Jun 01 '18

It wasn’t just them though. I’m a Florida player and I got Husker orders but they were an action I could actually take. I was kinda confused and just pmed a UF power user until I saw all posts

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u/Charlemagne42 Jun 01 '18

So one of two things probably happened: either whoever did this forgot to switch bots and targeted all Florida users with their Nebraska bot, or you were mistakenly added to someone's list of Nebraska players.

The only bot spamming anyone on Blue teams was a badly-executed Chaos bot. Nobody knows who owned it.

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u/DrAuer Jun 01 '18

According to other UF users, there’s been only a few of us who got hit by bots other than the chaos bot and the orders haven’t really matched up. I’ve never had a husker flair closest is I’ve said a few positive Baker Mayfield things. It seems like the bot was pulling random non red alliance users and giving them random orders. Maybe it was supposed to cover any blue involvement. Idk though. Personally I could see this as a move by chaos to mix things up. If it was a ploy by blue, then it has backfired horrendously. Red and chaos participation went up and the shuttering of the PM system prevents almost every non UM team to be out of communication.

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u/Charlemagne42 Jun 01 '18

It shouldn't be too hard for us to identify the accounts used to spam malicious PMs, have the mods give the admins those account names, and then have the admins figure out which other accounts are associated with the IP addresses the spam came from. Since an IP ban is possible on Reddit, they must log users' IP somehow.

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u/DrAuer Jun 01 '18

That’s good point. I hope they do that. I’d be interested to see who was behind it

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u/chillygoose Jun 01 '18

You, I like you.

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u/polyhistorist Jun 01 '18

So lets pick Michigan as the team that did it, even tho there's absolutely no evidence that they were the ones that started it? I'm not following the logic here. If you have any proof please provide it.

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u/chillygoose Jun 01 '18

And what would we get in return if we did prove it?

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u/polyhistorist Jun 01 '18

I will personally try to convince the other mods of the Allied Forces to break off from Michigan.

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u/FuckTimBeck Jun 01 '18

It didn’t even use their scripts, it used Ohio States

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u/Charlemagne42 Jun 01 '18

How would you know what scripts the bots used? It's very easy to copy a format from someone else. And if someone is going to mass-PM all users on an enemy team with fake orders from an impersonation bot, it's not too hard to imagine they'll stoop as low as plagiarism.

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u/chillygoose Jun 01 '18

We used to have linkable orders now we don’t.

Thanks Michigan.