hey beardedInk - Again, loving your tutorials - always looking forward to them . Question, as a new streamer to the circuit, how would this sery bot know the difference between a bot and an actual person ? How does that diferentiate between them - just curious. I'd hate to ban actuall followers :-)
That is a good question. Without getting into the down and dirty algorithms and such, there are markers that the spam bots, hate raids and other sources use. Similar to how captcha can tell if you're human or not, there are false positives, flags, ip pools, honeypots, watchdog lists, and on and on and on. Your viewers and human chatters wont trigger these flags and markers and will be fine. If, however your viewer has entered into one of these ip pools, been hacked or some other extremely rare situation you can always use the /unban message or they will send an unban request that you can approve.
Hi, to answer your question I gave you a thumbs-up because you deserve it. You're very comfortable when you talk which makes your videos easy to understand. Moreover, they're useful. By the way, this bot sounds to be interesting and I'll install it. On the other hand, according to you, is it worth it to maintain the Streamerbot protocol you suggested a few weeks ago or can this bot manage everything? Unless the 2 options are viable simultaneously?
Thank you for the kind words! And yes, running sery_bot along side streamer.bot and the lockdown protocol is highly advised. Sery is AMAZING at prevention of known bots, follow botting and hate raids. However, not all attacks on your stream are from bots. There are some nasty people out there. Sery can initiate safe mode on your stream, but it will not disable your chat, run ads, cover your onscreen chat, turn off alerts and other sources these people can use to get words on your screen. The lockdown protocol is a deck button or single command to do all of that and more. Having both is an ideal option.
Your vid is great, Serybot is worthless. Its completely reactionary and has the side bonus of potential false positives banning real viewers. This is mentioned multiple times in their FAQ and their entire solution for this is that the streamer should manually unban the viewer and apologize. There is a slash command built into Twitch chat to enable shield mode, /shield. Having a mod allows for known problem makers to be banned and you know the criteria thats used for these decisions where that is not the case for this automated solution.
This is true. Sery Bot will not ban trouble makers, and there is always a possibility of banning false positives with any honeypot script, which is why the FAQ is required. But having Sery bot on my own channel for over a year, as well as over 10 other channels I mod for, it has banned well over 6,000 accounts for me and I have never had a false positive. I am sure it happens, but other than manually doing the bans, there is no way around that. Even Twitch's auto-mod and shield mode have banned actual accounts. (I've seen this 1st hand) Personally, I would rather unban one person than manually ban 6000 accounts. And as an added example, a friend got bot followed a few days ago, no Sery Bot installed. We had to shut down stream and handle over 1.3 thousand bans. 2 days later after installing Sery bot, another bot follow attack... no false positives and none of the bot accounts made it through to chat.
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Hats off to the serycodes for creating such a great utility for free and share it with the public!
I agree. And with is being actively updated, new additions being made and more inclusivity, it should be a great option for a long while!
cheers to Sery for the lovely work
I agree! Sery_Codes has done an amazing job
hey beardedInk - Again, loving your tutorials - always looking forward to them . Question, as a new streamer to the circuit, how would this sery bot know the difference between a bot and an actual person ? How does that diferentiate between them - just curious. I'd hate to ban actuall followers :-)
That is a good question. Without getting into the down and dirty algorithms and such, there are markers that the spam bots, hate raids and other sources use. Similar to how captcha can tell if you're human or not, there are false positives, flags, ip pools, honeypots, watchdog lists, and on and on and on.
Your viewers and human chatters wont trigger these flags and markers and will be fine. If, however your viewer has entered into one of these ip pools, been hacked or some other extremely rare situation you can always use the /unban message or they will send an unban request that you can approve.
@@beardedink as always - much appreciated
Of course!
Hi, to answer your question I gave you a thumbs-up because you deserve it. You're very comfortable when you talk which makes your videos easy to understand. Moreover, they're useful.
By the way, this bot sounds to be interesting and I'll install it. On the other hand, according to you, is it worth it to maintain the Streamerbot protocol you suggested a few weeks ago or can this bot manage everything? Unless the 2 options are viable simultaneously?
Thank you for the kind words! And yes, running sery_bot along side streamer.bot and the lockdown protocol is highly advised. Sery is AMAZING at prevention of known bots, follow botting and hate raids. However, not all attacks on your stream are from bots. There are some nasty people out there. Sery can initiate safe mode on your stream, but it will not disable your chat, run ads, cover your onscreen chat, turn off alerts and other sources these people can use to get words on your screen. The lockdown protocol is a deck button or single command to do all of that and more. Having both is an ideal option.
Your vid is great, Serybot is worthless. Its completely reactionary and has the side bonus of potential false positives banning real viewers. This is mentioned multiple times in their FAQ and their entire solution for this is that the streamer should manually unban the viewer and apologize. There is a slash command built into Twitch chat to enable shield mode, /shield. Having a mod allows for known problem makers to be banned and you know the criteria thats used for these decisions where that is not the case for this automated solution.
This is true. Sery Bot will not ban trouble makers, and there is always a possibility of banning false positives with any honeypot script, which is why the FAQ is required. But having Sery bot on my own channel for over a year, as well as over 10 other channels I mod for, it has banned well over 6,000 accounts for me and I have never had a false positive.
I am sure it happens, but other than manually doing the bans, there is no way around that. Even Twitch's auto-mod and shield mode have banned actual accounts. (I've seen this 1st hand)
Personally, I would rather unban one person than manually ban 6000 accounts. And as an added example, a friend got bot followed a few days ago, no Sery Bot installed. We had to shut down stream and handle over 1.3 thousand bans. 2 days later after installing Sery bot, another bot follow attack... no false positives and none of the bot accounts made it through to chat.