there is no better tool than explorer.
But there is. A bot.
To be fair, I don't have anything vested in this controversy — but from a distance it seems like this is inherent in the structure of the game, and I think that's the point @emrebeyler was getting at in your summary. Even if there were some off-point nuances I think the gist of his argument holds.
Except where a game is specifically designed to exclude it (e.g. Captcha), automated play will just make sense.
In the long run I predict we're going to have plenty of both types of games (or leagues within games), based on humans with different definitions of fun.
No, his argument doesn't hold.
Yes, what he is doing is legal. No, what he is doing is not the same as doing it manually. You'd have to play the game yourself to understand. If not, you're just making a statement based on assumption without testing the actual fact. That is a dangerous thing to do and ignites further controversy.
As I've stated clearly, bots being allowed doesn't stop me hating it...that's my moral stand. So this logic will not move me from my moral stand. But I see your point.
He was just angry (rightfully so) for me attacking him personally and just wanted to accuse me of something, which is false. Again,, not something you can fairly judge from a distance :)
EDIT:
Automated play was not the problem. As stated clearly in the post, the problem began this season only where the bot was being able to submit teams after the match has begun but humans were not. That is UNFAIR.
For example a match starts at 8:16:03. If the bot submits a team at 8:16:06 or even upto 09 seconds, it gets accepted. For humans it didn't count. We have tons of evidence on the blockchain itself. I'd give you a few screenshots, but I'm busy at the moment.
if a bot can submit after a game has started, so can a human. it is a blockchain game. maybe cutoff times need to be adjusted a bit, but that doesn't seem to be a botting problem.
That should have been the ideal case, but because that didn't happen, it was annoying to most users. I can personally confirm you it happened to me twice. One time my team was not accepted at 09 seconds but the bot's was in the right next or a few games later.
Just a day before the final day of the season the bot submitted at 06 seconds which counted and it didn't count for me at 06 seconds which in the end turned out to be the title decider. So that is UNFAIR. All the evidence is on the chain.