"Will Dockery" wrote in message
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> "Her Illustrious Ashes" wrote:
>> 0x0000 wrote:
>> >Her Illustrious Ashes wrote:
>>>> "Orson Wells as CitizenCain" wrote:
>>>>> "Will Dockery" wrote:
>>
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> news:7a98a866-fdb7-4f7b-aaff-f9e167716660@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
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>>>>>>> Little Homeless Clown
>>>>>>> So I been out rambling
>>>>>>> shambling
>>>>>>> through the trailer park 'til dawn.
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>>>>>> 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.
Stalk much, Duckery? At any rate, YOUR life has been and is a pathetic
jumble of stupid v. moron. You're a washed up horribly inept and egotistical
drug-using alcoholic with no goals in life and no future. You'd be better
off dead if you had the courage to consider killing yourself.
>
> 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.
It's hard to believe but now you're even dumber than when you started that
post.
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