Shorebot

From TheKolWiki

A shorebot is a now-obsolete type of player-created bot used to aid in PvP attacks. PvPers had surmised that players were less likely to be buffed -- and therefore more vulnerable -- when they were spending turns at shore. By constantly refreshing the enemy player's character pane, players could see when their target's turns played increased in increments of 3 and/or meat decreased in increments of 500, which indicated they were shoring. A shorebot would constantly refresh a player's profile, and then initiate a PvP attack when the bot detected the meat or turns stats changing in this way. This was considered a valid strategy for PvP.

Similar counter-bots were created that constantly placed 500 meat at a time in the player's closet, as to give the appearance of shoring.

To prevent the unnecessary hits on the profile page, Jick changed the turns played and current meat displayed in public profiles to update only once per day. Jick made a famous rant on Radio KoL about the shorebots (transcribed here, forum login required). This rant has been immortalized in a remix by KennethTheObscure. (Note: The remix, while funny, does re-arrange Jick's words to create new sentences. Jick never claimed that "every other person playing the game were shorebots".)

Iocaine Powder claims they did not originate nor use shorebots, contrary to popular belief.

A copy of Jick's shorebot rant can be found here.