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[DrPoo]

So theres apparently alot of different kinds of adbots, beyond forum ones. Have you guys ever heard of sleeper adbots? Or Splogs(Spam Blogs that basically reap content and turn it into somewhat coherent garblebarble). We gotta figure this out and get a bigger picture of how things work. This will also make us more capable of fighting the most vicious ones(and keep the funny/interesting ones for the laughs.

I will try and keep this OP organised, post all your research/ponderings/facts here and i will put it in categories.

Types of Adbots(They need to be distinguishable from each others):
The usual Join-Copypaste-And-Leave adbot - Theese are the most common, apparently(unverified), they join only to post their spam and then leave, like bee's stinging.
The Artificial Stupidity Adbot - Theese adbots butcher a thread for keywords and try to put together meaningful garbage and somehow direct people to the sites they are working for.
The Intelligent Spambot - Very rare, theese bots are virtually indisinguishable from (really strange) people. Can usually be detected by them posting strange and irreleveant questions, occasionally includings links to shady sites, etc.

Proposals for management of adbots:

This sounds strange, but i propose that we keep the Intelligent Spambots, they are interesting to observe and experiment with.
However all the uncreative stock "copypasta kamikaze" bots should be wiped from existence.

Proposed Experiments:

Experiment proposed: email the admin of the forum, attempt to get an account.

Completed Experiments:
None currently

[Ancre]

Why do I feel that this project will backfire horribly, creating a new generation of superadbots, which will borgify/skynetify the internet and the planet earth and the human race ?

Posting to watch !

[DrPoo]

I doubt if this will even be taken seriously

[AntiAntiMatter]

I agree that intelligent spambots should be kept. Anything that can pass the Turing test needs to be preserved.

I doubt if this will even be taken seriously

Doubt is the wrong word- it leaves the possibility this will be taken seriously.

[DrPoo]

I agree that intelligent spambots should be kept. Anything that can pass the Turing test needs to be preserved.

I doubt if this will even be taken seriously

Doubt is the wrong word- it leaves the possibility this will be taken seriously.

But we live in a world where anything can happen!

[Lord Inquisitor]

its is a clever ploy for DrPoo to weaponize free bots to wreak havok upon nigerian princes and lotto mangament firms.

Play DF and you weaponize everything.

Anyone got a copy of Flame or Blaze lying about? purely for reasearh and the odd bit of !!SCIENCE!! of course.

[AntiAntiMatter]

I agree that intelligent spambots should be kept. Anything that can pass the Turing test needs to be preserved.

I doubt if this will even be taken seriously

Doubt is the wrong word- it leaves the possibility this will be taken seriously.

But we live in a world where anything can happen!

Well that's hardly a reason to take anything seriously, now is it?

[Heron TSG]

You forget, there are also those 'bots' that are actually people hired to spam intelligently.

[Jackrabbit]

i agree that this is idea clever should we get polar spambots then research them? i think agreement is vital on this issue and thank you for bringing up

http://www.donkey.org.au

[DrPoo]

i agree that this is idea clever should we get polar spambots then research them? i think agreement is vital on this issue and thank you for bringing up

http://www.donkey.org.au

Are you implying a diplomatic resolution and alliance forming with the spambots is a viable sollution?

[Loud Whispers]

You forget, there are also those 'bots' that are actually people hired to spam intelligently.

I was just about to mention manbots.

Also, I do remember that one Intelbot, you guys remember it? It basically copy pasta'd an entire segment of ancient Chinese philosophy, translated into broken English.
That was a weird one. It forgot to put in it's ad links until about 3 posts later as well.

Also
phr33 raybans bot

[DrPoo]

You forget, there are also those 'bots' that are actually people hired to spam intelligently.

I was just about to mention manbots.

Also, I do remember that one Intelbot, you guys remember it? It basically copy pasta'd an entire segment of ancient Chinese philosophy, translated into broken English.
That was a weird one. It forgot to put in it's ad links until about 3 posts later as well.

Also
phr33 raybans bot

Linkz?

[GlyphGryph]

Also, it's important to remember, spambots are not adbots.

They are not here to link us to stuff, and they don't care about us beyond wanting to exist here as long as possible. We are not their target, we are just a temporary host, and they make use of our notoriety to influence their actual target - Google's crawlbots.

We are simply being used as launching platforms for warriors in the robot wars.

[DrPoo]

Also, it's important to remember, spambots are not adbots.

They are not here to link us to stuff, and they don't care about us beyond wanting to exist here as long as possible. We are not their target, we are just a temporary host, and they make use of our notoriety to influence their actual target - Google's crawlbots.

We are simply being used as launching platforms for warriors in the robot wars.

Why do they want to influence google's crawlbots?

[Criptfeind]

Really? Because they want to show up higher on a google search.