Have bots ruined mpp?

[Juniper]

please be honest, i’m arguing with my friends rn

[Your Local Shadow Simp]

Juniper I haven’t really been on MPP in a while, only small visits to see how things are doing. But it’s sort of a yes and no, because obviously, there were bots before, but they were often in just the big lobbies (the main lobby you get loaded into automatically, TRR, etc.). I’ve noticed that they seem to be spreading, though. (At least from what I’ve seen.)
I feel like they sometimes just clutter up the site, because there’s so many of them, but I also think that they haven’t really ‘ruined’ MPP, just because in my experience with them, which albeit isn’t much, they don’t seem to impede upon the function of the site.

[Your Local Shadow Simp]

Basically, it really depends on what they mean by ‘ruined.’

[Juniper]

@Your-Local-Ghostface-Simp ruined as in they take the fun away, my friends don’t even try to talk to eachother because of a bot

[Your Local Shadow Simp]

Juniper ah, okay. Can you elaborate? Like how/why won’t they talk to each other? (I know you said because of a bot, but what does the bot do to prevent that?)

[Juniper]

@Your-Local-Ghostface-Simp they’re more focused on the bot than to talk things out, yk like not even a ‘hello’ 💔

[Your Local Shadow Simp]

Juniper ah, then I would say yes, because MPP is meant to be more of a social place. If they wanted to interact with bots, then go use c.ai or something.

[Juniper]

@Your-Local-Ghostface-Simp real

[ThatSluttyEditor]

Juniper said in

ruined as in they take the fun away, my friends don’t even try to talk to eachother because of a bot

Juniper said in

they’re more focused on the bot than to talk things out, yk like not even a ‘hello’ 💔

Yes. They did ruin Mpp.

[A Former User]

mpp was meant to be a website for piano playing•••duets•••stuff like that, not a bot and social/roleplay nest
bots ruined mpp but so did roleplayers

[Juniper]

@tea-and-crumpets i agree

[A Former User]

Juniper I might be biased, but I don’t think anything has ruined MPP. It’s still going strong after all this time in many ways. I still see people playing piano. I think that’s the main thing. The bots don’t really impede that in my opinion. While MPP may never have been intended for bots, it’s not necessarily a bad thing that it expanded beyond that original scope. I think .net has improved things by giving people the option to hide bots altogether.

[Blake]

@slowstone72 these days there are more bots than ppl-

[A Former User]

Blake That’s a fair point, but I think it reflects the state of the site as a whole rather than being solely about bots. There are less people these days for a variety of reasons outside of bots. Many users still actively play piano or chat. It really depends on how the bots are used. With the option to hide bots entirely, it’s still possible to bring the focus back to people and music for those who prefer that.

As a community-run site, I think it’s doing pretty well overall.

[Blake]

@slowstone72 Mhm.

[A Former User]

Juniper hm

it honestly depends what you mean

because i do think there are a ton of useless bots that just exist to spam the piano and crash the site, but there are some useful bots. Dev room is FULL of bots. like- over fourteen of them i think.