Is there a mod (or preferably rioter) willing to have a quick discussion
I was scrolling through a discussion on the boards that was being poorly framed but ended up touching on a subject that I have questions about that have never really been answered. The following is part of a Quote by the Advisor Chermorg:
"On the subject of bots, Riot bans bot accounts in waves (and generally there is 1-2 waves per month from what I've been able to see). They do this so that bot operators are unable to reverse engineer Riot's detection methods. If you would look around the Help and Support and Player Behavior boards, you would see these waves (they're pretty obvious) of scripters and bots being banned (and people complaining about their accounts being banned "unfairly"). Riot Support is not going to potentially compromise accounts by banning them instantly after they are detected. It is their job to investigate and potentially flag accounts, however Support is not there to be your personal report taker. Player Support is there to deal with technical issues mainly, and behavioral clarifications - not to circumvent the larger detection and abuse prevention measures of Riot.
Riot's detection is quite good. You will see many players around these ban waves who've purchased their accounts and/or only used it in one game or a custom game being banned. However, bot operators will not cease making new accounts. It is literally impossible to prevent them from coming right back and making more accounts when their batches of bots are banned. Riot does ban bots and they do so very efficiently - however the bot operator will just come right back and make a new bot account, hence why it appears "nothing is being done"."
This is my less than stellar reply to them-
"I Agree with most of what you have said but saying riot Ban's bots "efficiently" depends on what definition of efficient you are using. If you mean "in a way that achieves maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense." then I would agree if you mean "in a well-organized and competent way." then I disagree If you are doing it only once or twice a month then you are giving bot operators way to much time to level those accounts and destroy other peoples games. Because by the time the wave comes around Aram has been unplayable for days due to the number of bots. If a B5 moron can tell that someone in game is a bot and reports them as so (along with another ten people in the next ten games that also realize its a bot) then why isn't that account banned immediately its already ruined ten games for people. People know whats a bot and whats not (in most cases) so why does riot need advance detection methods for these damn things."
So if possible I would like these questions answered- 1 Are bot accounts banned strictly in waves or can they also be banned by the normal report system 1b If they can't be banned by the normal report system why not? 2 Is there any reason other than the "reverse engineering" that riot bans them in waves. 3 why doesn't riot ban these accounts immediately after they're detected. (the above explanation is not satisfactory)