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- Dec 13, 2017
This drama is just about done and over with but I wanted to create a thread as I think it's worthy of cataloguing. A lot of evidence has already been lost due to Reddit fun police nuking threads.
Context for the uninitiated
For those unfamiliar with Myg0t, I created a thread related to their return located here.
For the past few months, Team Fortress 2 public lobbies have been flooded with bot accounts. If you're still playing this game in 2020, you will likely have ran into several bots by the name of Myg)t or irc.myg0t.gg.
These bots all serve the same purpose, usually spinning around while executing aim/trigger scripts to headshot players as fast as the game can allow while spamming chat with racially charged statements.
Valve has attempted to mitigate this to some degree by making in-game chat inaccessible to free-to-play accounts, however the bots still remain and have been slaughtering lobbies until they invariably get votekicked within the first few minutes of joining a lobby.
None the less, this has generated multiple articles by several online gaming magazines:
Kotaku: Racist Bots are Running Rampant in Team Fortress 2
PC Games: Racist TF2 Bots
Engadget accusing valve of being complicit in bot spam
The "Hacker Police" are born
The nonstop flood of bots has spurred certain exceptional individuals within the TF2 community to created the "TF2 Hacker SWAT/Police". Their mission statement is to rid TF2 public lobbies of myg0t bots and other cheaters. Their methods include keybinds that spam in-game chat with messages to alert players to bot accounts and to call votekicks to remove myg0t bots from lobbies.
The subreddit can be found here.
r/Myg0t VS r/TF2hackerpolice
Since most myg0t members only communicate over IRC or their dedicated forums, their subreddit largely functions as a flytrap for ass-mad players and "hacker police".
In very short order, myg0t subreddit members have been harassing and "doxing" TF2PD mods in an attempt to get them to delete their accounts. One notable example is "The_One_Medic_Main", a mod accused of being a 40/yo man LARPing as a 15y/o femboy stalking femboy subreddits, posting about the legality of underagers owning sex toys and proper pube shaving techniques. Unfortunately the links to these posts are now broken due to reddit's spam filters auto-deleting them.
Sea_pupper2(TF2PD Mod) has also been active on the myg0t reddit, usually resorting to the "how is this fun" argument and constantly getting roped into dead-end flame wars with myg0t trolls. His public post history related to myg0t can be found here.
Note: I don't know how much connection there is between the myg0t forums/irc and their reddit other than the name.
"Myg0t did nothing wrong!"
By far and away, the most humorous thing to come out of this slap-fight between the two communities is that myg0t has been consistently claiming that they have nothing to do with the bot spam. All of myg0ts members on the subreddit are claiming that a user by the name OGBadger is responsible. OGBadger is allegedly a myg0t wanna-be who was banned from their discord/IRC and has been using the myg0t name in the bot floods in an attempt to defame myg0t.
Both average players and TF2PD members have taken this bait and ran with it, those that haven't have been humorously attempting to reason with myg0t subreddit users to end the bot spam. Anyone who has a passing familiarity with myg0t's past antics will know this is BS, but most of the TF2PD are too young to remember myg0t in their heyday.
TLDR
A couple of myg0t weirdos have been raiding TF2 with bots to screw with people, a bunch of LARPers created a group dedicated to kicking myg0t bots out of games, and now they're in the middle of a hilarious slapfight between themselves and myg0t embarassing absolutely everyone involved and achieving absolutely nothing to show for it.
Context for the uninitiated
For those unfamiliar with Myg0t, I created a thread related to their return located here.
For the past few months, Team Fortress 2 public lobbies have been flooded with bot accounts. If you're still playing this game in 2020, you will likely have ran into several bots by the name of Myg)t or irc.myg0t.gg.
These bots all serve the same purpose, usually spinning around while executing aim/trigger scripts to headshot players as fast as the game can allow while spamming chat with racially charged statements.
Valve has attempted to mitigate this to some degree by making in-game chat inaccessible to free-to-play accounts, however the bots still remain and have been slaughtering lobbies until they invariably get votekicked within the first few minutes of joining a lobby.
None the less, this has generated multiple articles by several online gaming magazines:
Kotaku: Racist Bots are Running Rampant in Team Fortress 2
PC Games: Racist TF2 Bots
Engadget accusing valve of being complicit in bot spam
The "Hacker Police" are born
The nonstop flood of bots has spurred certain exceptional individuals within the TF2 community to created the "TF2 Hacker SWAT/Police". Their mission statement is to rid TF2 public lobbies of myg0t bots and other cheaters. Their methods include keybinds that spam in-game chat with messages to alert players to bot accounts and to call votekicks to remove myg0t bots from lobbies.
The subreddit can be found here.
r/Myg0t VS r/TF2hackerpolice
Since most myg0t members only communicate over IRC or their dedicated forums, their subreddit largely functions as a flytrap for ass-mad players and "hacker police".
In very short order, myg0t subreddit members have been harassing and "doxing" TF2PD mods in an attempt to get them to delete their accounts. One notable example is "The_One_Medic_Main", a mod accused of being a 40/yo man LARPing as a 15y/o femboy stalking femboy subreddits, posting about the legality of underagers owning sex toys and proper pube shaving techniques. Unfortunately the links to these posts are now broken due to reddit's spam filters auto-deleting them.
Sea_pupper2(TF2PD Mod) has also been active on the myg0t reddit, usually resorting to the "how is this fun" argument and constantly getting roped into dead-end flame wars with myg0t trolls. His public post history related to myg0t can be found here.
Note: I don't know how much connection there is between the myg0t forums/irc and their reddit other than the name.
"Myg0t did nothing wrong!"
By far and away, the most humorous thing to come out of this slap-fight between the two communities is that myg0t has been consistently claiming that they have nothing to do with the bot spam. All of myg0ts members on the subreddit are claiming that a user by the name OGBadger is responsible. OGBadger is allegedly a myg0t wanna-be who was banned from their discord/IRC and has been using the myg0t name in the bot floods in an attempt to defame myg0t.
Both average players and TF2PD members have taken this bait and ran with it, those that haven't have been humorously attempting to reason with myg0t subreddit users to end the bot spam. Anyone who has a passing familiarity with myg0t's past antics will know this is BS, but most of the TF2PD are too young to remember myg0t in their heyday.
TLDR
A couple of myg0t weirdos have been raiding TF2 with bots to screw with people, a bunch of LARPers created a group dedicated to kicking myg0t bots out of games, and now they're in the middle of a hilarious slapfight between themselves and myg0t embarassing absolutely everyone involved and achieving absolutely nothing to show for it.
