MMO dev forced to respond to player hoping to dodge anti-bot rules by using their own amputated toe to grind through the night

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One of the devs at Old School RuneScape developer Jagex started this week with what I can only assume was the strangest player-submitted question of their career: "Can I use my amputated toe for the Duke mining method?"

Just to hammer it home, Reddit user planting_shade even added "[serious] [j mod reply please]" to their post, which proposes skirting the OSRS botting and macro rules in the most gruesome way I've ever seen. 

As they explain, they lost one of their toes to a diabetic foot infection last year. The affected toe sadly had to be amputated, and planting_shade asked the doctors if they could keep it for themselves. With approval from lab pathology, they held onto the toe and preserved it in formalin (or formaldehyde liquid) before eventually giving it "some mummification (I’ll spare you guys the details) so that it’s hard and I don’t need to keep it submerged any more." With their very own mummified toe now exhumed, they were wondering if they could, you know, let it play OSRS for them while they sleep.

"Since technically it’s a part of my body I’m genuinely wondering if I can use it for six hours of beautiful mining experience with the spacebar held down. It’s my toe. It’s heavy enough to press my laptop spacebar. Me personally, I feel like it’s valid; I sleep just fine at night knowing my toe is working hard for me in the salt mines." 

There are two important points of context here. First of all, "Duke mining" is a newly discovered method of training the Mining skill while totally AFK. All you have to do is press down your spacebar while standing in the right location at the game's newest mining area and your character will rack up six hours of XP before the game's auto-log kicks you out. Dev mod JagexLight