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[Urist Imiknorris]

An enormous Turing test of sorts?

[Flying Dice]

An enormous Turing test of sorts?

Not with the posts apparently being copied from other forums, I wouldn't think.

[lordcooper]

A spambot capable of copying relevant posts from other websites could be a pretty successful spambot.

[Johuotar]

Oh yeah that forum, I've random run into it and wondered what the heck is with the weird user names/avvies and stuff.

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[miauw62]

The fudge.

I vote WTF of the year.

[Flying Dice]

A spambot capable of copying relevant posts from other websites could be a pretty successful spambot.

It wouldn't necessarily be a spambot with human-level intelligence, though.

[miauw62]

Depends on what forum it copies from.

[Leafsnail]

I've heard the best bot-forums can have long discussions saying how weird other bot forums are.

[kaenneth]

As I mention in another thread, I once did something like that.

I once (well several time, but most recently) wrote something like this to Googleflood.

The random seed for a page was it's hashed URL, so every time you visited a page, you got exactly the same content (google likes this)

However, inserted in the text random words were turned into links so:

example.com/index.html would have "John Smith is an excellent dentist blah blah..."

which linked to example.com/dentist.aspx which would have "Dentist: John Q. Smith blah dentist blah blah apples blah blah..."

which linked to example.com/dentist/apple.html: "Dentists and Apples: J. Q. Smith blah blah apples, blah dentist blah blah. Apples blah dentists..."

I utterly SWAMPED the Google results for my target name. hundreds and hundreds of pages of mine before any other results.

I took it down since it was too obviously spammy to any human (but fooled googlebot.); My plan had been for my pages to be at the bottom of the ranks, with links to my friends site to boost his business; not to appear above his own site!

I was working on making it 'Blog', that is, adding fake content based on the date, but it was already too effective.

[Loud Whispers]

I've heard the best bot-forums can have long discussions saying how weird other bot forums are.

_{There are no humans...}

[kaenneth]

You know what's sadder than baby duckling being run over and killed?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47751511/ns/local_news-seattle_wa/

Your dumb human self being killed in traffic. (Didn't happen in this case)

[kaijyuu]

I dunno. Ducks are cuter.

[Knight of Fools]

In the battle between defending nature and getting to/from work on time, I choose getting to/from work on time.

[kaijyuu]

That's because you're a slave to the money machine. Stop being crushed under the Man's boot and save that nature!

[Lagslayer]

Ducks are really stupid about standing in the road, though. It's like they want to get hit.