There is some concern that the Second Life main grid is nearing its maximum practical concurrency (which is around 80,000 to maybe 100,000 avatars with the current platform.) There is also some concern that bots and other non-paying accounts might be using a large percentage of the bandwidth. Not all 'bots are run by non-paying avatars, but I believe the vast majority are. I would like to suggest that after some date in the near future, ONLY paying accounts should be allowed to run 'bots. This should not make it impractical to run 'bots for legitimate purposes such as greeters, banker-bots and (I am surprised I find myself using this example) landbots. Those accounts would get the same weekly stipend as any other avatar, which over the course of a year balances out the yearly membership fee. And if I am not mistaken, I believe it is not necessary for a single human to run a large number of those types of avatars in the course of normal business anyway. Even a businessperson who runs several event venues or has a major land sales business can usually get by with a dozen or fewer 'bots. My proposal would however make it prohibitively expensive to run a horde of zombies for griefing or traffic-inflating purposes. It wouldn't be technically possible to catch everyone who is breaking this rule, but Linden Lab would most likely be able to catch enough of them to be able to enforce the rule. This is not necessarily an alternative to proposals that bots should all be labelled: this is a tool which could be used to catch unlabelled rogue bots. I have seen similar suggestions in other forums, but I didn't find this issue on the Jira.