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[Lord Dullard]

Just quoting these for those who can't venture into the NSFW part:

Many have suggested that it searches through actual message boards and simply copies the conversations and posts them, making it seem legitimate. However, this raises several issues:

5) The grammar and courtesy on the board is impeccable, especially compared to modern forums.
6) If this comes from a forum, then surely it's would have trolls and flames just like any forum has, but this forum is devoid of any of that.
7) There are currently nearly 4 million posts on the forum. It would be impossible for even dozens of individuals to go through and only select "proper" forum posts. The domain has only been registered for about a year.
This one is the most telling. If you enter in any line of text from the conversations, you won't get a SINGLE other entry in google other than the gameskyrim one. I can find conversations I had years ago with a simple google search, so there should be some kind of remnant, but with all my searching I haven't come up with anything.

If these are merely bots searching the web and posting forum conversations elsewhere, how did they do it despite 5-8?

Other information that I've gathered:

9) Domain registered in 2011, but posts "go back" to 2008.
10) Date is pretty irrelevant on the site, they are discussing Skyrim features where the post date says 2008, but that's way before it was announced.
11) There are several other sites that are identical in style regarding a wide range of issues, examples:
http://www.topgamesforum.com/
http://www.designstudioschool.com/
http://www.vpshostingforum.com/
Potentially thousands of these sites exist.
12) What is the purpose of these sites? Email phishing? That would make sense if they allowed registration, but I know that gameskyrim at least does not.

I think the freakiest part of this is that a lot of the conversations are actually *interesting* to read.

[jc6036]

I belched this morning and it tasted like pork chops and Jaeger. This is not necessarily a bad thing or a good thing.

[Trapezohedron]

Seriously this is one of the weirdest things I've seen on the internet.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://conspiracies.allyourinterwebz.co.uk/2012/05/httpwww-gameskyrim-comi-what-5-5v-5oh-yes/
http://www.gameskyrim.com/  <--- That forum is....

Not NSFW at time of posting, but it has the potential.
http://boards.4chan.org/x/res/10245434

It's a forum board apparently run entirely by bots with 4 million unique posts about skyrim and fallout, with some posts made before the games were announced, and some made in the future. High tech wizardry is afoot. The posts seem to be copied from other forums.

Just.

Fwar

This has got to be one of the most peculiar things I've read this month. They're so... humanlike.

Digging through 4chan's paranormal thread concerning this (courtesy of Loud Whispers)...

Spoiler: Opening this will kill the suspense (click to show/hide)

...and they discovered that most (if not all) of its posts comes from Bethsoft's own forums, albeit with their titles mangled. As to why they're doing this, I don't know. Ad revenue?

[Scelly9]

Seriously this is one of the weirdest things I've seen on the internet.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://conspiracies.allyourinterwebz.co.uk/2012/05/httpwww-gameskyrim-comi-what-5-5v-5oh-yes/
http://www.gameskyrim.com/  <--- That forum is....

Not NSFW at time of posting, but it has the potential.
http://boards.4chan.org/x/res/10245434

It's a forum board apparently run entirely by bots with 4 million unique posts about skyrim and fallout, with some posts made before the games were announced, and some made in the future. High tech wizardry is afoot. The posts seem to be copied from other forums.

Just.

Fwar

This has got to be one of the most peculiar things I've read this month. They're so... humanlike.

Digging through 4chan's paranormal thread concerning this (courtesy of Loud Whispers)...

Spoiler: Opening this will kill the suspense (click to show/hide)

...and they discovered that most (if not all) of its posts comes from Bethsoft's own forums, albeit with their titles mangled. As to why they're doing this, I don't know. Ad revenue?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

As pointed out in the thread, AdSense has REALLY good bot detection software. Besides, they pay for clicks and the ads aren't visible.

[Trapezohedron]

Seriously this is one of the weirdest things I've seen on the internet.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://conspiracies.allyourinterwebz.co.uk/2012/05/httpwww-gameskyrim-comi-what-5-5v-5oh-yes/
http://www.gameskyrim.com/  <--- That forum is....

Not NSFW at time of posting, but it has the potential.
http://boards.4chan.org/x/res/10245434

It's a forum board apparently run entirely by bots with 4 million unique posts about skyrim and fallout, with some posts made before the games were announced, and some made in the future. High tech wizardry is afoot. The posts seem to be copied from other forums.

Just.

Fwar

This has got to be one of the most peculiar things I've read this month. They're so... humanlike.

Digging through 4chan's paranormal thread concerning this (courtesy of Loud Whispers)...

Spoiler: Opening this will kill the suspense (click to show/hide)

...and they discovered that most (if not all) of its posts comes from Bethsoft's own forums, albeit with their titles mangled. As to why they're doing this, I don't know. Ad revenue?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

As pointed out in the thread, AdSense has REALLY good bot detection software. Besides, they pay for clicks and the ads aren't visible.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Yeah, there's that, but then again, what's the reason for opening a creepy-@$$ forum if you're not going to profit? I know there are some other ways, but none have come up to my mind at the moment.

[Scelly9]

Seriously this is one of the weirdest things I've seen on the internet.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://conspiracies.allyourinterwebz.co.uk/2012/05/httpwww-gameskyrim-comi-what-5-5v-5oh-yes/
http://www.gameskyrim.com/  <--- That forum is....

Not NSFW at time of posting, but it has the potential.
http://boards.4chan.org/x/res/10245434

It's a forum board apparently run entirely by bots with 4 million unique posts about skyrim and fallout, with some posts made before the games were announced, and some made in the future. High tech wizardry is afoot. The posts seem to be copied from other forums.

Just.

Fwar

This has got to be one of the most peculiar things I've read this month. They're so... humanlike.

Digging through 4chan's paranormal thread concerning this (courtesy of Loud Whispers)...

Spoiler: Opening this will kill the suspense (click to show/hide)

...and they discovered that most (if not all) of its posts comes from Bethsoft's own forums, albeit with their titles mangled. As to why they're doing this, I don't know. Ad revenue?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

As pointed out in the thread, AdSense has REALLY good bot detection software. Besides, they pay for clicks and the ads aren't visible.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Yeah, there's that, but then again, what's the reason for opening a creepy-@$$ forum if you're not going to profit? I know there are some other ways, but none have come up to my mind at the moment.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Boredom, a test for an automatic scraper, freak people out? I dunno, but I also don't think their making any money on it.

[Trapezohedron]

Seriously this is one of the weirdest things I've seen on the internet.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://conspiracies.allyourinterwebz.co.uk/2012/05/httpwww-gameskyrim-comi-what-5-5v-5oh-yes/
http://www.gameskyrim.com/  <--- That forum is....

Not NSFW at time of posting, but it has the potential.
http://boards.4chan.org/x/res/10245434

It's a forum board apparently run entirely by bots with 4 million unique posts about skyrim and fallout, with some posts made before the games were announced, and some made in the future. High tech wizardry is afoot. The posts seem to be copied from other forums.

Just.

Fwar

This has got to be one of the most peculiar things I've read this month. They're so... humanlike.

Digging through 4chan's paranormal thread concerning this (courtesy of Loud Whispers)...

Spoiler: Opening this will kill the suspense (click to show/hide)

...and they discovered that most (if not all) of its posts comes from Bethsoft's own forums, albeit with their titles mangled. As to why they're doing this, I don't know. Ad revenue?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

As pointed out in the thread, AdSense has REALLY good bot detection software. Besides, they pay for clicks and the ads aren't visible.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Yeah, there's that, but then again, what's the reason for opening a creepy-@$$ forum if you're not going to profit? I know there are some other ways, but none have come up to my mind at the moment.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Boredom, a test for an automatic scraper, freak people out? I dunno, but I also don't think their making any money on it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Well, there's always the obvious answer that he's doing that just because he can. But whatever it might be, it'll still be on the list as one of the most peculiar WTFs of June 2012.

Now, to look for that Buffy (or at least I recall it was) forum where one guy posts and replies to his own posts, despite the forum having died a few months, maybe years earlier than that.

[Leafsnail]

It could just be that on a huge scale.  A guy decided he hated forums where people troll and flame and have mods he disagrees with, so he decided to create his own set of fantasy forums.  And pretend that he lives in a perfect world.

[Flying Dice]

Honestly, I don't think that is possible, given that (as of me checking) there are 3,767,038 posts there. The earliest posts are from August 9, 2009. Counting today, that's 1037 days. That's an average of 3,632.6 posts per day. Or roughly 2.52 posts per minute, every minute, for more than two years.

/takin'itsrsguy


Creepy, in a WTF sort of way.

[kaijyuu]

The post dates are fabricated. The site was made in november of '11.

[The Fool]

There's also the possibility that it's some kind of online numbers station.

I mean they have no ads, they're pulling threads from all over, they're pulling names of people that actually do exist but have no knowledge of the forum, you can't register, post dates are messed up (they go into the past and future), and all email and phone numbers lead to a dead phone line of a server host rather than a customer. If that doesn't scream odd I have no idea what does.

[kaijyuu]

Someone's tech demo, is my guess.

[MonkeyHead]

Some sort of SpamBot proving ground or development station?

[The Merchant Of Menace]

I mean they have no ads,

Protip, try disabling adblock before deciding if a site has no ads

[Putnam]

Joss Whedon wrote Toy Story.