We’ve just moved the frustration and the workload somewhere else.
It’s great if KGS can handle it, maybe we can find out if it’s because KGS has no cheaters, or if its rating system is more stable.
The thing is noone is watching you cheat against a bot, the bot probably won’t be the one reporting you. If you cheat in 100s of games against the bot, only someone paying attention and noticing the bots rating tanking will end up reporting it.
Sometimes bot operators might be the ones paying attention and report cheaters, but again it’s possibly hundreds of games to have to annul regularly, with bots that could play hundreds of games a day.
At least the current types of cheating against bots will be fairly repetitive and boring, and if it’s an exploit, it’s something you’d have to figure out.
If it’s just a case that a bot lets the human decide the scoring, or gives up after a certain number of disagreements, then there’s a fairly easy way to beat the bot every time.
I’m not sure why you’d sign up for that, over the small trickle of people that have issues with the current autoscoring, which can still be improved over time.
I’d say BadukPop gets a similar amount of posts about how it’s autoscoring games, but I doubt they’ll swap to letting you argue scoring with their bots any time soon.
They don’t even have manual scoring of human games. Same with GoQuest, no manual scoring of human games even.
I also don’t think being able to argue with a bot is a good user experience feature, unless that’s meant to be enjoyable.