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- crashbandicootsthe1
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Scratch Bot Accounts, spoken at length
So, I don't like Scratch bot accounts
I have a whole lot to speak about. Very few can achieve a Scratch bot. Usually, those are just long computer programs, made using lines of code, designed to automate sending comments. Those robot accounts usually get banned, even with the same comment restrictions as human Scratchers.
Robot accounts are mostly designed to notify users when something is done. To the user who serves the account, a simple sound effect feels like nothing to them. Even I delved into creating a bot account. It was going great until another user's bot account was banned. (username kept secret to prevent gossip)
Robot accounts are (as we know) mostly composed of lines of code. With the hard task of writing a program (most notably in Python), it's as rewarding as your first line written ever being:
Multiple accounts have been used to automate sending comments. but currently nobody has automated sharing projects as that'll go too far off the Terms of Use. Even Bigfoot would be scared of automating Scratch accounts 
In summary, Scratch bots (I call them Robotic Cats) are human-created user profiles designed to automate certain tasks in succession, and famous uses for Scratch bots include a wide range of actions, from notifying users of completed tasks (which is slightly ethical), to spamming on a specific user's profile (which is unethical, and should be reported since it is against the Terms of Use, section 3.5).
- crashbandicootsthe1
I have a whole lot to speak about. Very few can achieve a Scratch bot. Usually, those are just long computer programs, made using lines of code, designed to automate sending comments. Those robot accounts usually get banned, even with the same comment restrictions as human Scratchers.
Robot accounts are mostly designed to notify users when something is done. To the user who serves the account, a simple sound effect feels like nothing to them. Even I delved into creating a bot account. It was going great until another user's bot account was banned. (username kept secret to prevent gossip)
Robot accounts are (as we know) mostly composed of lines of code. With the hard task of writing a program (most notably in Python), it's as rewarding as your first line written ever being:
print("Hello World!")

In summary, Scratch bots (I call them Robotic Cats) are human-created user profiles designed to automate certain tasks in succession, and famous uses for Scratch bots include a wide range of actions, from notifying users of completed tasks (which is slightly ethical), to spamming on a specific user's profile (which is unethical, and should be reported since it is against the Terms of Use, section 3.5).
- crashbandicootsthe1
- crashbandicootsthe1
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35 posts
Scratch Bot Accounts, spoken at length
Bump. It has been 3 days.
- Paddle2See
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1000+ posts
Scratch Bot Accounts, spoken at length
We don't particularly like them either as they are often used to spam the site. So there isn't really anything to talk about without encouraging experimentation in this area - which we don't want to do 

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