Bots

Hey Rocks,

When you post on the Open Forums everyone can comment their thoughts or experiences. To be honest, I'm not sure any of these posts go to IMVU. There's always the same old answer...Make a Help Ticket. Contact Customer Support. It's laughable.

But the bots...while I totally understand what you are saying about the IMVU experience and having people stay and I get that, but the majority of people joining IMVU now are kids. Teens. VERY young adults. All of which do not read the Help Section when joining. IMVU doesn't even encourage them to get to know their way around the site. All they offer is gifts for completing tasks that ultimately require them to spend money. You know the routine.

However, those young people are targets. Every single one of them. Those running the bots know these users only care about being followed by other users, posting pictures on Feed and looking for free stuff. The first thing they should be told is to NOT click on links in any rooms. No matter who they are. The bots themselves? They are paid advertisers...in some form. And if the truth were known, it's IMVU. A side hustle. Why do you think it keeps happening? They do nothing about it. I'm not really sure they can really do anything if a person makes a new account for every ad. It's a huge pain. Nobody likes them. But what you could do...message the room owner and let them know what's happening in their room. Maybe they will change the settings or something. I see them advertising for VUArchives. Funny. How does a site get that information if it isn't coming from IMVU itself?

Just saying. 

Yes, the bots are annoying. Just so long as you know not to click their links or bother with their site...and tell others in the room with you the same.  Sorry that it happens so much to you.

We all know that as long as creating accounts is free then every time a bot is banned another is created.

Good luck escaping the bots.

@UglyDoll people want to enjoy IMVU, not those that hide. I also was asking IMVU, not a random user who only been on for a handful of months. Also if people are just hiding in their own rooms all the time, IMVU does get smaller since no one would explore and meet new people as well as new people can't join AP rooms right away nor made friends to join friends only rooms and may quit right away seeing the btos, two not see how creative people can be and make more things and three keep the game alive as I seen more people leave cause of issues then come in. Things not being fixed, bot accounts flooding rooms as there are other post about the same thing, not just me, crashing a lot, hell even the messaging system still gets errors for years and never been fixed. 

No one is forcing you to hangout in rooms that Bots frequent. 

Let room owners worry about their own rooms.

Thats all fine if you own the room but when you're in other people's room, doesn't work that way. That's where this issues happen the most. The bot issue shouldn't even have been this bad in the first place and seems like they just let it run this way to force people to buy VIP and or AP. Also,if you're trying to have an open room for new people,it's won't work as well.

Kuvi is correct. Save yourself the obvious frustration and do not allow Guest accounts or AP only. 

Sadly you would have to stop Guest users from coming into your rooms or make your rooms AP unfortunately. 

Heres a tip, have something to detect people spamming like they do or look at the flags when flagged. I see so many ways this can be handled. I mean you have the IMVU bot itself censoring people in AP/private rooms, pretty sure you can have one detect the spam accounts who post the same thing every time.

Since IMVU is cutting off what I showed, yesterdays was longer, this is just 2-3 hours today alone

This is just the past 2-3 hours in one room

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I been reporting them for years, its been getting worse not better.

Hello, @RocksTheSquirrel 

Imvu support is very aware of it . They are doing their best to look out, it would be very helpful, if you can help imvu support report bots, would be really appreciated! 

this article explains Flags: http://im.vu/help774

How to deal with Harassment: http://im.vu/help723

How to contact Customer Service: https://support.imvu.com/support/tickets/new

Thank you!