Recruitment Bots

[August]

I don't need to explain this. 

Edited October 23, 2016 by August

[Karrde]

Not sure about ethics, but it's bloody annoying.

[Linus Vulp]

I dont see a problem with using them. Less annyoing than the huge recruitement squad...

[James XVI]

I'd say it's not a particularly friendly or personal method of recruiting, but wouldn't say it was unethical.

Not like it's difficult to put in time to message individuals anyway - that way you also see (and know) who you're inviting at least.

[greatkitteh]

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Subject: Greetings from Britannia!

 

From: hadesflames Date: 10/16/2016 Sunday 3:16 pm Block Communications

 

*shrugs*

 

From: Greatkitteh Date: 10/16/2016 Sunday 3:12 pm

 

Still, UPN bot took a day to recruit me

 

From: hadesflames Date: 10/16/2016 Sunday 3:09 pm Block Communications

 

Dude, bot.

 

From: Greatkitteh Date: 10/16/2016 Sunday 12:38 pm

 

Dude that was fast

 

From: hadesflames Date: 10/16/2016 Sunday 12:31 pm Block Communications

 

Hello Greatkitteh,

 

I noticed you recently left your alliance, and decided I might try and sway you to join the Holy Britannian Empire. Now you might ask, why should you join HBE? Well, we care. While many alliances would send you some standard message they have from some recruiter, we spent the time to personally handcraft this message just for you. Some alliances would even just have a bot send you some automated message. But not us, because we care about {$user.nation}. That's why we don't use automated messages.

 

So, consider joining us today, because we care.

 

-hades, Emperor of Britannia

 

//:: This was an automated message from Britannia :://

[Betulius]

Gave the option to vote yes, no, and maybe, so I did.

[Prefontaine]

Where's the "I doesn't give two shits" option?

[Kurdanak]

Are multiple choice polls ethical? Results remain unclear, with all options receiving the same number of votes.

[Mikey]

From: hadesflames Date: 10/16/2016 Sunday 12:31 pm Block Communications

 

 But not us, because we care about {$user.nation}. That's why we don't use automated messages.

 

So, consider joining us today, because we care.

 

-hades, Emperor of Britannia

 

//:: This was an automated message from Britannia :://

 

Did it actually come up as {$user.nation} or did you swap that in knowing what they used? That would be pretty hilarious if it didn't work

[Peter Quill]

This is so wrong on so many different levels.

[Mikey]

I don't know who this {$user.nation} guy is, but they seem to be going out of their way to let everyone know just how much they care about him!

[Peter Quill]

And lol at the fact that it said it was an automated message, a few lines after 'Some alliances would even have a bot send you some automated message, but not us'

[Guest Frawley]

Market bots should be legal too.

Edited October 24, 2016 by Frawley

[Buorhann]

I second the "Don't give a shit" option.

 

>click messages

>see what it is
>ignore it

>move on

[durmij]

Market bots should be legal too.

Why stop with market bots? Why not just automate every facet of this game and then we can all leave? 

[Guest Frawley]

Why stop with market bots? Why not just automate every facet of this game and then we can all leave?

I'd argue that people actively competing against each, either through better code or attempting to exploit each other's algorithms is playing the game.

[Aksel]

Voted for all bc I could.

 

No problem with them - If you're an alliance thank likes an endless list of applicants that will never sign on to the game again, cool. 

[Tiber]

This is so wrong on so many different levels.

...this message has to be satire, because if it is trying to be a joke it is pretty funny.

[Ogaden]

We prefer recruitment raids

[Rob Semloh]

I actually think Hades' message is hilarious.

 

10/10 would let HBE recruit me if I were allianceless.

Edited October 26, 2016 by Robert P. Holmes III

[Foltest]

I'd argue that people actively competing against each, either through better code or attempting to exploit each other's algorithms is playing the game.

 

Widen your gaze, Frawley.

 

A game like this would narrow the target audience of our genre even further.

[Aisha Greyjoy]

This is so wrong on so many different levels.

I think of it as admirably ironic.

[hadesflames]

...this message has to be satire, because if it is trying to be a joke it is pretty funny.

I actually think Hades' message is hilarious.

 

10/10 would let HBE recruit me if I were allianceless.

 

I think of it as admirably ironic.

Good to see that at least some people in this thread understand satire lol.

[Hooves]

Recruitment bots are atrocious, just saying. I don't care for your reasoning in using them, I just hate them.

[Shiho Nishizumi]

While very annoying and ''cheap'' (in the sense that it's a mere automated message), I wouldn't say that they are unethical.

 

...except when/if it reaches the NS shenanigans of 4+ invites upon starting, or being invited while you're in an alliance because of registered inactivity.