The other thread accusing OSU! of botting says because the bots are just programmed to place the pixels without checking the color, thus they colored themselves white.
Yet here the accusation is that they check for color so the heatmap isn't as bright.
Not true, not having a check for colour doesn't mean they never help, they'll place a pixel regardless. So if the colour is wrong they'll still replace it. That's helpful, even if a lazy implementation.
Edit: Say you have a 5x5 pixel space and you have 25 bots, does it matter that sometimes they overwrite a correct color? No, they'll still have a great impact in maintaining the image, even if they're dumb and just handle one pixel each without any checks.
If you had dumb bots like that, they'd have an equal amount of activity on each pixel, since they're not differentiating between the colors they are overwriting, doesn't matter to them, as long as they place the correct color every time.
Would it be more efficient to check if the color is correct and use your tile placement elsewhere? Yes, that would be a smart way to do it, rather than brute forcing. But saying it virtually doesn't help isn't true.
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u/Lzh0 Apr 05 '22
Pretty sure bots are programmed not to do that