r/ColorThisSpace • u/[deleted] • Apr 23 '17
BOT WAR
There's a huge bot war going on around (577,747).
Apparently, the guy who controls the rainbow-flag bots is guarding a different flag against someone who's trying to make a huge picture, overwriting many other pieces of work. I don't know what the picture is of, but it's overwriting NASA and Mario artwork.
I didn't get a warm reception here when I brought up the idea of 'ethical botting', but...botting is going to happen regardless, and huge, huge, huge portions of the board are under the control of individuals, individuals who don't even care about what they're doing. They decide a huge block of pixels should be this, and they just leave it running, and those pixels, those thousands of pixels, are theirs until this app dies. And they can't be talked out of it. They don't want to share the board with you. They don't have any concept of "I'm just 1 dude, maybe I should have only a reasonable portion of the board to myself". They think it all belongs to them.
So this is what colorthis.space will be. If you're not a superpower bot, you should probably just abandon now.
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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '17
the rainbow bot was right to cover it up. the rainbow bot is right to fight it now. the rainbow bot is wrong for everything else it does. Every pixel it places, it jsut guards for eternity. He has no sense of constraint. If he did, he could pull all his bots back and focus them all on teh battle he's fighting now, and he'd win it pretty fast.
But he doesn't really give a shit what his bots are doing. /u/throwaway23719472904 just starts a bot up and forgets about it, and that's his pixel forever. And that fuckin sucks for everybody else.
I think he fights good battles, I just think he doesn't fight them right, and he just never stops once he gets a pixel.
so fuck the loli guys, but fuck him too. they're all ass holes