Hello there! Just a random post here, because I find it very interesting. Whoever made this character, you’re a goddamn legend, it confused me for good 4 or so hours XD But I think I accidentally broke it, since it only shows this now
Still, good job! It did brighten up my mood today a lot 
Looks like you may have clicked the main name, collapsing the picture.
No no, I wasn’t talking about the picture, but a description. It changes when you look at the character, but the monkey emoji is something that shows a split second before the change is made. For some time it didn’t change no matter what, but at this point it seems to have been fixed, haha.
You mean these rules?
From “rules area” for Sinder
Blank Characters / Sweeping
Please take the time to fill out your character profiles and let us know a little bit about yourself! What does your character look like? Who are they as a person? What type of roleplay are you looking for? Blank character profiles idling in public rooms may be swept back to their homes.
From “help rules”
No object characters: Characters representing objects or props without personality are not allowed. Bot scripts are exempted from this rule.
From Terms of Service:
You may not
- create or use bots accessing the Service for any other purpose than improving game play;
I would also like to point out that you were given numerous indications as for how to proceed with the object/character while conforming to said rules. Your choice not to proceed with those is just that; your choice. It’s not some sort of draconic staff-comedown, as you seem to be implying here. We’re happy to help people add to the game, but within the rules of the sandbox.
We’ll be sure to look into clarifying the process for bot characters in more clear text though, I can see where that is not clear enough from own research without actually asking a question about it before proceeding.
Oh look, half of those are the bots that I operate! (You did miss the librarian, though).
The fancy newsstand is not an active bot (people on the forum didn’t like it). I don’t really know why it’s still awake, but I know it’s been parked in a hostel, so no one can actually interact with it.
The crow’s only function is to deliver post. There’s noway to mail stuffs from the bot account so the crow does that by flying around. That use case was pre-approved with mods.
Scam is similar, it’s mostly the bot you can interact via in PMs (although you could do it in person if you visit the bank in the City of Winds). Which was, again, approved from the mod team.
Henry is really the only bot that processes user information because it’s a chatgpt chat bot. I suppose your point there is fair.
The librarian (that you didn’t list in here) is actually the one that collects user information: it’s the one that gives me an overview of the population numbers in the top level regions. We use it to figure out the state of the public map. That specific thingy was approved with Acci. That information cannot be tied to users from the point of view of the bot, so you couldn’t even file a GDPR request to take it down, given there’s nothing to identify you on.
So yeahs, there is no collection policy because they don’t collect your data.
Granted, I haven’t written those bots myself, but I personally know the people who did and if it came out that the bots did something fishy, we’d have more than just a stern talk. I believe most of those are open-source, too, so anyone could go and figure what they do.
Honestly, when I first saw the character, it creeped me out.
With just a picture and an odd ‘rainbow sock developer’ (not sure if that’s exactly it) species tag, I wasn’t sure what was going on so I looked. The flash of the description changing immediately drew my attention, and I wasn’t sure WTH was going on as my name was in the description pointing out I was looking at the character. Not just my name, but someone else was listed as well. I wasn’t sure if this was keeping track of me looking, would it store that some where? Would I have to worry about how many times I clicked the character accidentally and find out it pointed out I had looked 32 times? I was also concerned that it was showing to others that I was looking, something that generally only the individual being seen can see. Who else would see that and what might that imply to them? Also it seemed to be taunting, with the ‘made you look!’ as if the character was a joke or trick.
And so I said something about the character because it made me uncomfortable, mostly because of the privacy issue about the fact it was giving others information that only the player of that character would have. This is different from those that sit around watching and logging as they aren’t actively displaying information to others that is not being publicly displayed already. If my name hadn’t been there, I don’t think I would have been so concerned. Had it been anonymized, such as ‘5 people are looking at me right now!’ or ‘It’s been 15 minutes since someone looked at me’, then that would not have been a problem to me.
It was my honest opinion, mentioned to moderators shortly after I first saw the character.
