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[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Botters have gone from aimbotting and afk item farming to basically crowding public lobbies with their bots, then using ai to voice spam slurs and "confessions of illegal activities" in the voice of people trying to bring attention to the bot problem. The botters have also done both doxxing (impersonating said people and spamming their personal info as well as using ai voice chat spam to get people to do vigilante action against innocent people), swatting (see previous), as well as using their majority in a server to kick anyone that tries to combat them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNxjTciIwig

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

That's so grim.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Valve just closing their eyes and ears like they do to all other shitty things being done by players on their platform.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Some people just have too much free time huh