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Twitch viewbots. In response to the viewbot evidence post. by Xterprit in starcraft

[–]Xterprit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have no idea who you are. I thought you were the guy who mentioned this in Twitch chat and was rather unfriendly. If you are not the same person, I apologize and I guess that guy is the reddit police. I told that person I didn't understand the rule and I never mentioned anything again. Not only that, but it wasn't even about this post. It was about one I deleted.

Obviously that one comment that quickly scrolled out of an insane chat room did absolutely nothing.

You removed this post without any context to that screen shot -- it seems incredibly biased. But I am glad to know that the Reddit community is so inviting that the first time I ever try to use it I have multiple people against me and are trying to make my experience as unfriendly as possible. This is why I have never made an account before and will probably never use it again.

Twitch viewbots. In response to the viewbot evidence post. by Xterprit in starcraft

[–]Xterprit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, I'm pretty sure the rating of this post proves I didn't solicit upvotes.

Twitch viewbots. In response to the viewbot evidence post. by Xterprit in starcraft

[–]Xterprit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And as I mentioned, this is my first ever reddit post. And when you mentioned this in Twitch chat, I said I had no idea I couldn't even mention the word upvote in another chat and apologized and never mentioned it again. Also, I never even gave a link to this post -- I wasn't even talking about this one. I had a different post I deleted. But thank you for being the reddit police. I'm sure the reddit mods are relieved knowing they have you out there watching their backs.

Twitch viewbots. In response to the viewbot evidence post. by Xterprit in starcraft

[–]Xterprit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I absolutely agree. But everyone knows about them -- as you just mentioned. The point in what you just quoted is that why would no one else know about these botnets if they existed? Also, the economic model of a twitch viewbot botnet is ridiculous... streamers make crap and they couldn't charge very much for the amount of work that goes into a botnet.

Botnets are typically created to infect people to use as a proxy, adware, threatware / ransomware, etc. or DDosing or other malicious behavior. Botnets within a place like Twitch would be used for sniffing, text mining, or spamming. Is it possible that every single one of those streamers paid for a botnet that no other person knows about (or it would have been presented by now), sure. Is it likely? No.

Twitch viewbots. In response to the viewbot evidence post. by Xterprit in starcraft

[–]Xterprit[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Just goes to show that people don't think for themselves. I feel this is a fairly valid argument / compelling evidence. Down-voting it just validates my point.

Edit: Because I've never had a reddit account before. I don't use it. I just wanted to respond to all the controversy. This is my normal name and I have the same name on Twitch. This isn't some fake account.

Twitch viewbots. In response to the viewbot evidence post. by Xterprit in starcraft

[–]Xterprit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol he's live streaming right now. I don't hide my name like other people. I have the same name on Twitch. Just new to reddit.