Re: FreeBitco.in - Win free Bitcoins every hour!

The rewards are only reduced for accounts that don't do at least a little gambling, buying lottery tickets or deposit to keep a higher balance.

Whatever move you do, those botnets will keep adapting and finding ways to drain the faucet. I think the only thing you can do is lower the base reward even more for such accounts so that it isn't profitable anymore.

I suppose the problem here is that not all such accounts are bots. I wouldn't be surprised if most of them aren't.

babygun is correct, the only way to stop them is to make it unprofitable for them. There are costs incurred to run their botnets. We could have just reduced the base reward for everybody, but by using a minimum wagering requirement we feel it targets the bots effectively. There might be a few people that get the new lower base payout but the vast majority are bots. If you look at the last lot of accounts wetsuit blocked from the faucet, out over 100k+ accounts only around 10 people contacted me.