When a program keeps checking when neopets is down isn't the same as an user who keeps checking to see if it's back up?
No. The programs follow a delimited sequence. For example:
Main -> Login -> Market -> Shop -> Haggle Page -> Buy
If the neopets is down, the program could continue to follow this sequence and send forms. But the result is nothing of course, because the site is down. If the program don't verify if the site is online or not, the server could identify you like a robot. Something like this: The "page 1" is offline and you send forms to "page 2" that is offline too and worst, send forms more than one time. You have a big chance to being frozen. But the normal user could make that? Only a few times and only if the site was down in the moment that he are sending a form. The most part of the programs verify if neo is online before start, but not all.
