It appears that everybodies favourite "retired" high stakes poker player is being accused of "viewbotting" on twitch.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffen...tickyrice1_is/

Where there's a will there's a bot.

/Was any of it ever real?

Shoutout to Stickyrice

Someone please define what "viewbotting" means?

It is the same as the way people can pay to gain fake followers on twitter or facebook. There are services that that will boost your viewers on twitch by having fake bot accounts to watch your stream and the bots can even "chat".

In before thread bot attack.

everybody's favorite*

Nope.

http://www.twitch-viewerbot.com

This has been a known issue for some time... there are bots to gain views, gain followers, etc. These bots are used to game the system, and increase exposure to put yourself at the top of the Twitch list. I cannot confirm because I haven't read the Twitch T&C, but it appears that using a bot to add fake viewers can get your account shut down.

A quote from twitch-viewerbot.com home page/FAQ:

and here is their justification on why they think breaking the rules by using a bot to increase viewers is acceptable: http://www.twitch-viewerbot.com/botting

I'm a firm believer in following T&C... if the T&C allows this, then not much can be done about it - but the probability is very high that Twitch does not allow view botting in any shape or form which would make using this app a violation of the terms.

I feel so cheated

I don't understand this world

sticky is awesome

lol what a pathetic nerd.

view botting seems like a legitimate way to garner attention to a burgeoning channel. if the product sucks people wont stay anyways. good for him for giving it a go.

yeah i mean its always fine to break the t&c of sites/programs/games lol dafuq son?

his gf almost going topless was pretty funny

Is Twitch going to ban him? Or make him return the gained revenue?

guys remember when he had his aces sucked out on to bust his roll and insta-called a hooker.

great memories. f the haters sticky

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die #stickyrice

people are who into the CS twitch community have known about this for months. Stickyrice could simply never achieve a high level of viewership organically as he is an unlikable dumb ass. On a side not his gameplay is decent but nothing special.

Which grill?

In regards to botting, no ****in ****..

This is indeed a sad day for NVG and the whole 2+2 community. Never before has the poker world been so shocked to learn about a beloved member, that cheated.

I don't want to know what a stickyrice or a viewbot is, because right now i'm too angry to write so i just quote the great reddit poster Yreisolgakig: "Normally I think posts like these are jokes (they never have any evidence to back then up) but damn, those are some damning graphs."

QFT

Online attention-whoring can earn you serious money, so there's a whole bunch of businesses dedicated to helping you get that attention. Some of those businesses are shadier than others. That's about it, really.

My favorite fail in this area was some random dork who bought pre-video ads on YouTube itself to promote his channel. Of course he was awful. If you gotta pay for it... (Edit: It looks like this sort of thing might be pretty common, actually. I guess they rarely pop up in my feed for whatever reason. Also LOL at me for not blocking ads, but I don't mind them in general.)

And let's not forget our own SeriouslySrius (or however you spell it) who had like 1M+ views on one of his videos before he even posted about it here. He got called out on that one.

Jesus take his name out of this thread, you're only sending viewer's his way. This is how twitch casters get there viewer's. Seriously close this....