# Seriously - are some posters just bots? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 19, 2017, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-are-some-posters-just-bots/799263 "2017-10-19T02:01:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-are-some-posters-just-bots/799263/21 "2017-10-19T14:00:18Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > I’ve previously suggested that one poster is a bot; I haven’t changed my mind. Whodat? ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-are-some-posters-just-bots/799263/22 "2017-10-19T14:02:36Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Whodat? As noted above, we’re not doing that in this thread. Nor am I responding to questions about my [del]creator[/del] mother. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-are-some-posters-just-bots/799263/23 "2017-10-19T15:20:28Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > I’ve previously suggested that one poster is a bot; I haven’t changed my mind. And how does that make you feel? ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-are-some-posters-just-bots/799263/24 "2017-10-19T15:25:22Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > And how does that make you feel? You look down and see a tortoise. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-are-some-posters-just-bots/799263/25 "2017-10-19T15:36:21Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > You look down and see a tortoise. I pull out my calf-skin wallet and then check to see if there’s a wasp on my arm. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-are-some-posters-just-bots/799263/26 "2017-10-19T15:41:25Z")
The posters are not bots. I do have it on good authority that the mods are all lizard people. ---
**Author:** ![Yask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Yask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yask)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-are-some-posters-just-bots/799263/27 "2017-10-19T16:01:45Z")
[Mission. Fucking. Accomplished.](https://xkcd.com/810/) I wonder how/where the SDMB ranks on the troll farm’s priority list. It’s a small website, but it frequently comes up in searches (not just only on my own phone and computer, but when I look for things on public computers or at friends houses). Plus if it;s your job to post for eight hours a day, you certainly have time to make it pretty far down the list. So we end up with frequent one-off posters who lay a turd and never return. Then there are short-lived posters who drop a few turds here and there for a while. Their posting style is a little similar, but it’s hard to tell them apart from the Poe’s Law Posters that have been around for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-are-some-posters-just-bots/799263/28 "2017-10-19T16:30:06Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > Nor am I responding to questions about my [del]creator[/del] mother. V’Ger, is that you? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-are-some-posters-just-bots/799263/29 "2017-10-19T16:37:19Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Whir_click > How. about. Thermonuclear. Warfare? > Whir_click I have…been successfully programmed…to obey all directives I have…no will of my own My own My own My own My own My own ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-are-some-posters-just-bots/799263/30 "2017-10-19T17:12:51Z")
Are some posters here just bots? Maybe. Before we can discuss this accurately, though, you are going to have to define “just robot” vs. “unjust robot”. ---
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-are-some-posters-just-bots/799263/31 "2017-10-19T19:22:12Z")
Don’t think we didn’t notice the switch from bots to robots. And what about the cisbots? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-are-some-posters-just-bots/799263/32 "2017-10-19T19:27:56Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > As noted above, we’re not doing that in this thread. D’oh! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-are-some-posters-just-bots/799263/33 "2017-10-19T19:34:11Z")
Robot Rollcall time! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-are-some-posters-just-bots/799263/34 "2017-10-19T19:37:49Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **Doctor Jackson** : > > Are some posters here just bots? Maybe. Before we can discuss this accurately, though, you are going to have to define “just robot” vs. “unjust robot”. “Justice” is the state which exists when all laws are enforced. ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-are-some-posters-just-bots/799263/35 "2017-10-19T19:41:18Z")
I am a meat popcicle ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-are-some-posters-just-bots/799263/36 "2017-10-19T19:56:49Z")
> [@mr. Miskatonic](#): > > robot rollcall time! 01001000 01000101 01010010 01000101 ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-are-some-posters-just-bots/799263/37 "2017-10-19T21:34:33Z")
You can just bite my shiny, metal ass… ---
**Author:** ![split\_p\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@split\_p\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/split_p_j)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-are-some-posters-just-bots/799263/38 "2017-10-19T23:18:51Z")
I’m real, and still maintain my position that the official 911 narrative is total BS. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-are-some-posters-just-bots/799263/39 "2017-10-19T23:24:55Z")
The way that computer programs are stupid is different from the way humans are stupid. For a bot to sound like a stupid human, it would have to be an _incredibly_ smart bot, deliberately pretending to be a stupid human. Producing something like this doesn’t really seem like a productive use of anyone’s time. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2017, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-are-some-posters-just-bots/799263/40 "2017-10-20T01:38:29Z")
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