Then, regarding solosss madness. I do not agree with how he is expressing himself, but I do consider the possibility of the site taking extreme measures to stop bots. Most of the time this measures comes with high collateral damage (as we are seeing for the last 10-20 posts).
IMHO, I prefer to be part of collateral damage from a hammer-ban (and ask for support to restore such account) than the site manipulating rolls or cheating for the sake of stopping bots by cutting profits to everyone (bots and humans).
In regards to your suggestion on how to better implement provably fair wetsuit has promised to include that in the new site. It requires a lot of back-end work to implement and that would be duplicated work to do it before.
wetsuit is constantly working on better ways to combat bots and always does his best to try and limit the collateral damage to genuine users as much as possible. In regards to today's change to RP redemptions that have now been limited to a subset of users that we believe to be mainly bots, I've had one person who has reported it. He was understanding and said he needed to start gambling more. As a result of that, I had an idea of a way we could better implement this and I actually managed to get hold of wetsuit this morning. He's looking into what he needs to do to implement it so I won't say what it is yet.
The problem with just using the ban hammer approach alone is that we always allow everyone to withdraw regardless of what they were banned for. I need to speak to wetsuit to understand his reasoning for doing that. But it means the bots don't lose anything and just make new accounts to start again.
Every faucet would be at least 10 times bigger than it is today if there weren't bots out there.
That's very true. Every satoshi lost to abuse is a satoshi we can't give to a genuine user. I wish we could find a better way of dealing with it than reducing the rewards every time.