I believe that what Zamnmez said would be correct. Get rid of broken and shitty bots that are painful to people and leave the ones that work properly and are professionally maintained. Awaiting response from Sneeza. This is very important.

1. You can personally run any amount of bots, but only one may be advertised at a specific time. One can no longer have 1 trade pointing to 10 different bots, or 10 different bots bumping/having open trades at the same time.

2. The items being sold do not make any difference. If we interpreted this way then one could have 40 bots, one for each type of item in the game - and the rule would be rendered useless.

Merge them to a single bot or advertise one at a time.

That's no good to me and I suspect to lots of people. If your site has bots that actually work, are well stocked and priced, they only make the users happy and serve a convenience. People don't have to wait for others to accept their invite just to buy one of the basic items. This removes a ton of opportunities.

Clarification:

The purpose of this rule is to cut down the amount of bots laundering items and clogging the search results.

If you have 10 bots, you may no longer have 10 accounts bumping trades at the same time. You may, however, advertise these bots on your main account one at a time, i.e. once and one per trade. If your trade lists 10 different bots in the notes, or the same bot is listed on more than one trade then it will be considered spam/relist and incur a penalty.

Bots no longer need to have Outpost accounts, but they still require public inventories (otherwise your main will be banned as an extension).

1. Is it OK to list multiple bots in 1 trade (notes) which serve the *same* purpose? (Backpack slots are limited.)

2. Is it OK to have a trade posted from bot account but this trade will only provide info (eg prices, possible commands, how to's ...) but it will not be bumped?
--- edit. nvm this question. unbumped trades get auto closed anyway.