Theory Confirmed: Social Media is Largely Faked

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[–]StillLessons 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

We can all sense this happening. This site is certainly not immune.

[–]magnora7 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Being admin, and seeing the number of obvious bots I've had to ban just running stupid scripts and making endless user names, for years now... makes me wonder how many bots are smart enough that I can't even tell they are bots.

It is still wild to me that there are just bots floating around the internet trying to register usernames and copy-paste scripts on multiple forums, like the "Americans" bot, which I've seen post on GLP as well as saidit for years now. They are like viruses, but they take over entire forums instead of your desktop computer.

[–]Chipit 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Haven't seen the Americans bot for a while. It seems to post once or twice a month at most. Swatting it down seems to keep it at bay. Speaking of which, it's back for its September appearance: https://saidit.net/user/Dmiv

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks, banned him