RE: Splinterlands Town Hall Summary - March 6th, 2023!
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Why can't we filter out bot farms from renting our cards? We know that farms don't own cards they rent them. Why don't I have the "right to refuse service" when renting out my cards?
RIGHT TO REFUSE SERVICE TO BOTS WHEN RENTING OUT OUR CARDS
The team knows this game is getting exploited by farms and they know the characteristics of bot farms yet they don't give us a way to filter them out when renting out our cards. Why? The problem is being dumped on us (the real players) under the pretext of not wanting to create a centralized committee that can say who can and cannot play but they are not giving us any way to stay diligent against these exploiters.
The right to refuse service is basic to owning a business.
If a customer comes into my store/restaurant naked and peeing on people and yelling at them and soliciting etc. that is harmful to my customers. I can kick them out. I can see them coming and put signs and warnings or outright lock the door when they try to come in.
Likewise we should be able to block bot farms (which are harming the game) from renting our cards.
Why do I have to make a proposal for this? It shouldn't be a proposal for a number of reasons. I shouldn't have to pay for a proposal to stay diligent and protect the integrity of the game when it comes to my basic rights as a card owner.
Any exploitable blockchain game with rewards is going to require constant diligence to fight against the exploiters. The team should take responsibility for the exploitable lopsided economy they created which allows the bot farms to hide in the shadows and extract wealth and consolidate voting power and give us the tools to screen them out based on behavior which is destructive to the game.
If I make this a proposal any filter I state can be argued about at nauseum and voted against in order to block the whole suggestion.
The team has to decide when and how exactly each filter would be implemented. That is the best way to do it.
I would suggest the following filters when renting out our cards. Each one can be decided on separately by itself by the team and how and when exactly to implement it:
- Do not rent to accounts with less than X amount of SPS staked.
- Do not rent to accounts with 50% or more SB rewards cards (with 10% increments).
- Do not rent to accounts that have played more than 100 matches in a day within the last month.
- Do not rent to accounts that [insert bot farm trait here].
== This next one is important and washes the hands clean of the SPL team to stay out of it but still give us the tools to block bots ==
- Do not rent to the following account names (let someone in the community like Tales which is good at spotting bot farm accounts create this list so we can copy paste it into here). This gives the SPL team a way to stay out of it but gives us the tools to exercise our rights as property owners.
Please understand the position you have put us in. You created an economy that is exploitable by bot farms and you are not giving us any way to stop them, slow then down, fight them yet this is going to require constant diligence. You have to know that by now. If you keep ignoring/blocking efforts to solving this problem under the rationale that it creates a centralization point then you have to at least give us the right to fight back as card owners. The current situation is totally lopsided in transparency (they can hide and consolidate voting power).
I don't disagree with you that bots are a drain on the economy, but my question for your suggestion is how do you differentiate a bot with no cards or SPS staked to a brand new player with no cards or SPS staked. The way the new player experience is at the moment requires these players to rent card in order to earn SPS from battles. And in this sense, it's very difficult to differentiate new players from bots.
@theacks, I totally agree with you about it.
Sometimes, it's not about whether we want to do it or not, it's all about how to do it.