Bots posting repeated messages

[StewB]

Just curious...

Recently (and also in the past year or so) there appears to have been a bot or spammer posting repeated similar messages. I couldn't find the recent posts and wondered if these got removed.

Are mods at liberty to share what happened? If not that's fine (as I said, I'm merely curious).

 

[luvmysuper]

Just curious...

Recently (and also in the past year or so) there appears to have been a bot or spammer posting repeated similar messages. I couldn't find the recent posts and wondered if these got removed.

Are mods at liberty to share what happened? If not that's fine (as I said, I'm merely curious).

We get a LOT of spam bots, as well as more devious tricky spam posts and we delete them (and the poster) as we find them. I'm not sure which you are referring to, as we get a bunch, but if it's spam and we are made aware of it, they're gone!
Ditto for obvious troll posting.

 

[DesertIguana]

Best way to deal with is to report to staff.

 

[StewB]

We get a LOT of spam bots, as well as more devious tricky spam posts and we delete them (and the poster) as we find them. I'm not sure which you are referring to, as we get a bunch, but if it's spam and we are made aware of it, they're gone!

Thanks -- the one I was curious about was a recent poster that posted very similar messages as "larryjohnson". The username was "michaelsmartino" or something like that. Seemed very much like some kind of bot.

 

[brucered]

Thanks -- the one I was curious about was a recent poster that posted very similar messages as "larryjohnson". The username was "michaelsmartino" or something like that. Seemed very much like some kind of bot.

I can never figure out if it's a bot or troll.

Do Bots reply to follow up questions and replies as those accounts did?

I'm guessing it's a real person, having fun or who shouldn't be on a CPU unsupervised.

 

[StewB]

Yes, it's very weird. Same questions being repeated. At a minimum, some kind of strange trolling. I suspect people are designing bots that try to bypass forum and blog posting software restrictions for data collection or later spamming purposes. If it's a real person...well, peoples' motivations can be inscrutable at times...

 

[Old Navy_1]

Recently, I received a slew of responses from "Calahan23". Responses to just about every thread I've written. IDK if this person is 'spamming', or just a 'fan' of mine? LOL!

b/r

ON_1

 

[Deano]

Recently, I received a slew of responses from "Calahan23". Responses to just about every thread I've written. IDK if this person is 'spamming', or just a 'fan' of mine? LOL!

b/r

ON_1

Fame is a burden.

 

[Old Navy_1]

@Deano ...it's hard to be a 'legend in my own mind'. LMAO!

b/r

ON_1

 

[Deano]

@Deano ...it's hard to be a 'legend in my own mind'. LMAO!

b/r

ON_1

Kings are remembered but legends never die.

 

[CANES]

Yes, it's very weird. Same questions being repeated. At a minimum, some kind of strange trolling.

The funniest thing- bot or not- was ol' Larry posting "Sorry, I didn't mean to offend" to just about every reply I gave him. To me, that was more telling as him being a bot than anything else, but who knows?

 

[luvmysuper]

I think you guys are referring to the individual who has registered under 5 different user names to post, over and over again, the most inane and pointless questions ever asked by a human being.

"The website says not to get soap in your eyes, if I lather up my eyeballs, do I have to worry?"

They say there's no such thing as a stupid question, but I can tell you that this one has come pretty darned close!

 

[brucered]

I think you guys are referring to the individual who has registered under 5 different user names to post, over and over again, the most inane and pointless questions ever asked by a human being.

"The website says not to get soap in your eyes, if I lather up my eyeballs, do I have to worry?"

They say there's no such thing as a stupid question, but I can tell you that this one has come pretty darned close!

But how did people years ago know not to lather their eyeballs, before the internet told them it was bad? Did Gillette put out any instructions or what did they say when you called their 1-800 number?

He had some doozies.

 

[luvmysuper]

Funny you should ask...

thats really weird because for some reason i cannot find that thread titled williams lectric shave for some reason! was it deleted??? rsvp. This is basically the same question as your thread titled "wlilliams lectric" to which I just posted a very lengthy response, check over there.

www.badgerandblade.com

 

[luvmysuper]

@Darth Scandalous
You have to admit that he's persistent.

 

[Darth Scandalous]

@Darth Scandalous
You have to admit that he's persistent.

Yes. But what if I use Proraso and a multiblade cartridge??? What then???

 

[luvmysuper]

Yes. But what if I use Proraso and a multiblade cartridge??? What then???

It depends on what the outside temperature is and if you took a hot shower in an unheated Mediterranean apartment.

 

[CANES]

It depends on what the outside temperature is and if you took a hot shower in an unheated Mediterranean apartment.

Before or after the year 2000? Apparently that makes a difference.

 

[HoosierTrooper]

He’ll be back asking the same stupid questions and members will offer advice and engage with him, which only encourages the goofy behavior.

 

[Bobovata]

If you think it is bad now, then you are going to love what will happen when AI has had just another year or two of evolution.

We are rapidly heading to a situation where it will be practically impossible to distinguish humans from non-humans online.

If you are not scared witless about that, you have not understood the problem.