"Her Illustrious Ashes" wrote:
> 0x0000 wrote:
> >Her Illustrious Ashes wrote:
>>> "Orson Wells as CitizenCain" wrote:
>>>> "Will Dockery" wrote:
>
>>>>>
news:7a98a866-fdb7-4f7b-aaff-f9e167716660@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>
>>>>>> Little Homeless Clown
>>>>>> So I been out rambling
>>>>>> shambling
>>>>>> through the trailer park 'til dawn.
>
>>>>> God damn bum. Get a haircut, loser.
>
>>>> Your odd obsession with my appearance is noted...
>
>>> There's no obsession. I'm telling you that you look like a .in'
serial
> >>> killer and need a haircut.
>
>> Damn, why don't you lighten up a little? Your obsession is starting to
> >> sound like hate crime.
> >
> > Has anyone else thought of - or tested - the idea that some of these
> > seemingly automatic mono-postings that seem to respond unerringly to
> > every post by certain individuals may be created by bots? I.E. NNTP
> > parsing/posting scripts that require no human intervention to plaster
> > the drivel/spam into the groups? I find it almost inconceivable that
> > an actual human would spend most of every day e.g. ferreting out every
> > post by Will Dockery on Usenet, and replying to them each with non-
> > sensical one-liners that mean nothing to anyone. I, personally, would
> > write a script to that before I would waste the time require for 3 or
> > 4 hundred posts of that nature per day. Of course, I strongly
> > suspect that Will is actually a bot, himself, since he does seem to
> > hit them back each and everyone, himself. Kinda sad, imo, that Will
> > continues to believe that these posts come from a person at a keyboard
> > - he tries so hard to get them to make sense, and doesn't seem to
> > understand why they don't yield to reason and logic.
>
> I wouldn't go quite so far as to assume the person is a bot, no, but I
> guess it's always possible. I'm not convinced that a simple script would
> pull it off. There is at least some Artificial Intelligence behind the
> posts and I would venture to guess there would need be at least one
> server dedicated to such human-machine like interaction or an algorithm
> based program running that uses at least some basic logic.
Wilson has made the point more than once that he thinks these posters, or
certain ones, may be "bots", but I'm fairly sure that some here really exist
in human form, or are at least /based/ on actual humans... I've been here
for a number of months and know at least the claimed biographies of some,
certainly "Orson" above, and Dennis Hammes.
What Wilson percieves as "bot"-like qualities, the sort of mindless
responses that repeat themselves over and over, really reflect more the lack
of their fragile human brains to continue to keep up with me.
Could be that some computer whiz has developed Uncle Hammy or Barbie Cat
artificial intelligence "bots" which they can turn on when they're exhausted
or frustrated and lack a good "comeback" to something I've written that's
hit a nerve, though... but has someone who's been here for a while, I might
have a clearer understanding of the cast of characters here than someone who
has just dropped into the story without taking the time to go into the
backgrounds and personas of these suspected "bots".
> In general, I
> try not to imagine others at the other end of the computer too much, but
> impressions do slip in on occasion; in the case of that which goes by
> the name Barbara's Cat, I have spontaneously imagined a giant Panda
> eating bamboo leaves sitting quietly by a terminal posting links at
> random. It can be a little disquieting.
That's a nice, fresh image, much better than the somewhat creepy image
Barbie's developed here over the years.
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4 new Will Dockery recordings, "Twilight Girl", "Shadowville Speedway",
"Truck Stop Woman" and "Sidewalk Spinner" online at:
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