In his current blog post, Jack Linden decides wisely how to cope with bots:
- Use of Bots to game Traffic will be considered a violation.
- Bots are fine and we totally support their good use inworld, but we will deal with inappropriate use of them.
- Traffic has value as a land metric, and will remain.
- Responsible use of Land Bots is acceptable for now, but overuse will result in further action.
Note, that this is not a technical solution, but rather a guideline to the community, just as I proclaimed on JIRA and slinfo.de back in mid-2008.
On the other hand you could say, they just forbid what they can monitor. (Since of course they can monitor unusual Traffic spikes easily, but it would be much harder to data-mine land sales.)
Anyway, I’m happy with it for now, and my chat bot, and the ZKM project are not threatened, phew.






