About cut-and-paste posters (Cherryeye revisited)

Factual Questions
#1

With mod’s permission.*

We had this thread just recently:

I want to ask about the practice in general. Is this a common phenomenom? Is there any possible gain from it? It strikes me as somewhat similar to the random spam posts that don’t advertise anything, just babble about nothing.

Why would someone go to the trouble of doing this with no obvious immediate gain? What am I missing?

  • See the last post on the linked thread.
#2

I suspect that it’s something along the lines of what Jsexton said. Probably someone with too much free time and a little knowledge of coding who created a bot program trawling for posts.

Either that or someone who really wants to be a valued member of the posting community but suffers from some hugeass writers block.

#3

I suspect that it’s something along the lines of what Jsexton said. Probably someone with too much free time and a little knowledge of coding who created a bot program trawling for posts.

Either that or someone who really wants to be a valued member of the posting community but suffers from some hugeass writers block.

It just asked to happen.

#4

Have I read this before?