Originally Posted by
mixster
If you want reflection, then there are plenty of other bots out there that do that.
SRL is not a bot or a script, but a community of skilled scripters. You do not get skilled scripters if the extent of what they have to do is call one line and be guaranteed an accurate result for every possible situation - SRL does not guarantee you will get from A to B, it does not guarantee you will find the object you wish. I honestly think this is a great community, because it's encouraging many people (dare I say children?) to take on a tough, mental challenge and enjoy it regardless of the outcome. I also strongly believe that it sets in place many important skills for actual programming and problem solving skills as well.
My second view is that reflection is counter productive to one of SRL's main belief of a leecherless environment. With people being able to churn out any script with great ease compared to colour, there should be no shortage of scripts and so no encouragement for people to learn to script. Some people still will, but not many. Not only that, but a large amount of working scripts would only encourage people from other communities to stream over too, but not to contribute. Sure, more people are good, but I would prefer 10 new people a week that actually at least tempted to learn to script rather than 1000 new people a week who want scripts.