The point isn't that it is simple to respond to them, the point is I should not HAVE to respond to get people from harassing me. Whenever I'm leveling skills, I'm often busy working on projects or on another tasks and merely keep a windowed screen of the game open in another monitor. In no way, shape, or form should I be required to respond, no matter how miniscule a response, to someone badgering me due to them having some notion that I'm a "bot."
This is a very large problem in this game. I have not seen any other game in which there is such a large portion of vigilante players in respect to botting. Eldevin's population is not very large atm: topping out at around 200. However, this is still a ridiculously large amount of people who feel it is their prime duty to harass others. I have never seen anything like it.
Edit: I thought of a good analogy. The vigilantism about botting is like the TSA in America. They question you, pat you down, and stick a finger up your rectum in order to make sure you're not a threat. At least in the case of the TSA, there is a valid counterargument: national/public security.
Edited by SlipperSpeedst, 10 January 2014 - 21:29.