Hey guys.
My name is Anton, I've been playing on PokerStars for a living since 2014. My screen name is 'el.suertero'. My current stake is 200NL. Some of you certainly have battled me at the tables.
I would like to ask those of you who believe that seating scripts should be completely prohibited on PokerStars, to send an email to
support@starsaccount.com and
gameintegrity@starsaccountnj.com with the following text that I've composed:
Quote:
Hello, PokerStars.
We, your regular players, would like to draw your attention to a serious issue that severely damages the user experience on your site. We believe that most of your customers suffer because of it.
We are talking about the seating scripts in cash games. Your recent policy changes regarding their functionality did not improve the situation. Matter of fact, your changes made it even worse than before.
At the moment, it is often impossible to get a seat at any table from the lobby for prolonged periods of time since all available seats are continuously reserved by script users ('R'). The main criterion for triggering a script, according to the developers of the most popular of them, is no longer a color label, but the number of players sitting at the table. As a result, non-script players (most of your customers) are unable to sit down and start playing. Instead, they have to wait until all the scripters from the waitlist leave the table. Given the large number of scripters, it takes quite a long time, especially when the traffic peaks. To our understanding, this situation hurts the majority of your cash game players.
Furthermore, we believe that the use of a seating script violates in some measure one of your basic rules that third-party software shall not interfere with the player's decision-making logic. Table selection is a skill in itself, just like check-raising the river at the right time. It is a decision making process which should not be automated in any way. Seating scripts vastly reduce the degree of human participation in this process.
Among other things, we suppose that recreational players do not like when every table they try to sit at is instantly filled with scripters. Considering that recreational players make up a significant portion of your player base, we believe it is sensible for you to solve this problem as soon as possible.
Finally, we would like to inform you that some of the users of the MagicSeat script (allegedly) still have the access to using the prohibited table selection functionality based on the color labels of the players. Please, investigate.
In the light of the above, we ask you to reconsider your decision on the regulation of the seating scripts and completely prohibit their use during play on your site. We are certain that such a move on your part will noticeably improve the situation in the lobby and level the playing field for everyone.
We hope for your understanding and cooperation.
Regards, your players.
Feel free to edit the source to your liking. I'm not a native English speaker so I would really appreciate if you corrected my text above. Being Russian myself, I've started a similar thread on most popular Russian poker forum:
https://forum.gipsyteam.ru/index.php?viewtopic=145181
For what it's worth, Russian community has already come together and started sending emails to support.
Also, I've asked a number of 200NL regulars directly at the tables and many of them were ready to help me with this anti-scripts initiative. So I hope that 2+2 community will join us.
Thank you.
Last edited by sandr1x; 04-10-2019 at 08:05 AM.
