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Unread 29-07-2011, 20:40
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What? Maybe I'm just tired but I don't know where you got that.
I got it from here.

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RE: Mark's find...my mind is exploding. Are bots really getting that smart, rotating phrases (and punctuation marks!) between posts to evade death by simple Google-search?
It was loosely based, and I'm usually too lazy to direct quote.
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Re: Hello everybody

How many Alan Turings does it take to spot a spambot?
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How many Alan Turings does it take to spot a spambot?
Too many...

I think it would be interesting to see how this spambot continues its posts... Will it always be benign, just filling server space, or will it turn evil and start advertising?
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Re: Hello everybody

why would anyone make a bot on this site it seems pointless
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Unread 29-07-2011, 22:28
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why would anyone make a bot on this site it seems pointless
Sadly this bot uses better punctuation and capitalization than many on this site.
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Unread 29-07-2011, 22:48
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How many Alan Turings does it take to spot a spambot?
All of them

It may be a human masquerading as a bot. Perhaps the purpose is to find easily-posted-to fora, as targets for some future spam?
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Re: Hello everybody

I've actually found it interesting to read the spam posted on this site as it evolves. There have been multiple times a bot has made me think about the thread in a way I hadn't before. Once I saw a bot make a reference to recording music in a thread about winning a record. It was completely unrelated, but it actually made sense in an analogy sort of way. Perhaps in the future we should read posts made by bots and think about what they say before immediately reporting it. Yes, we should report it too. But in the meantime it can make us think.

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I've actually found it interesting to read the spam posted on this site as it evolves. There have been multiple times a bot has made me think about the thread in a way I hadn't before. Once I saw a bot make a reference to recording music in a thread about winning a record. It was completely unrelated, but it actually made sense in an analogy sort of way. Perhaps in the future we should read posts made by bots and think about what they say before immediately reporting it. Yes, we should report it too. But in the meantime it can make us think.

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My favorite one was a spambot that copied an intelligently worded, deeply technical question posted years ago. Despite the links in its signature, I was quite impressed with the spambot's knowledge of the IFI control system. It was even in the right forum!

Some related spambot humor
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Re: Hello everybody

Its definitely a bot. found the exact same wording and username:
http://greenstems.org/2011/07/hello-everybody/

By the way, has anyone reported this yet?
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Its definitely a bot. found the exact same wording and username:
http://greenstems.org/2011/07/hello-everybody/

By the way, has anyone reported this yet?
At this point, is it spam or a conversation starter? Is it possible to be both? If it is both, is it really proper to delete the spam? Just alot of questions involved with this sort of situation. I'll be interested to see how this situation is dealt with.

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At this point, is it spam or a conversation starter? Is it possible to be both? If it is both, is it really proper to delete the spam? Just alot of questions involved with this sort of situation. I'll be interested to see how this situation is dealt with.

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Its definitely a bot. found the exact same wording and username:
http://greenstems.org/2011/07/hello-everybody/
Circular logic. Your link is actually this OP post, not a different spambot post. Kara earlier dismissed the post you found. Look at it more closely...

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By the way, has anyone reported this yet?
It's now responsible for a respectable thread.
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Re: Hello everybody

To the people who are saying report this, it's technically not doing anything bad. It posted one harmless, and somewhat nice post, and since then we've been talking for 2 whole pages over one comment. Unless it posts again (which I want it too), and that post is obviously spam, then we should let it be.
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The site has measures in place to question/verify whether an account is spam or real. By ignoring this message, it undermines some of those measures and could lead to a flood of spam later.

The account has been banned. Y'all might enjoy spending your free time deleting spam, but I have other hobbies
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