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shikamaru317 said:
If Hellobion is a bot, it is a very cleverly designed one. In addition to commenting in threads and article comments with messages tailor made to fit with the theme of the thread or article (and sometimes not directly pertaining to the theme, for instance saying he wants a Star Trek game announcement at the PS State of Play on Wednesday), Hellobion also rates games, adds games to GameDB, has added friends, likes posts, makes spelling and grammatical and capitalization errors, logs out of the site at times, and only posts on average 4 times per day (less than many of the accounts on this site, including me, I average 10 posts a day over a decade on the site). Quite a clever piece of engineering if that is the case. If if is a bot, what would be the point of designing it? Most bots are used for advertising, but Hellobion would have long since been permabanned by the mods if it was posting advertisements, but Hellobion is instead posing as an actual user if it is a bot. Hellobion even has paid supporter status, why spend money on a fake AI account instead of building an AI designed to make yourself money instead? Somebody testing out a project for their College AI class or something, trying to make an AI that can pose as a human for an experiment? |
Since the account was set up it has posted in numerical patterns. The miss spellings and attempts at trying to appear engaged can easily be programmed for it to appear to have some fallacies and interactions. I have yet to see it actually engage in any meaningful way to prove the contrary.
If it was allowed to just run all day long the posts counts would be through the roof and attract too much attention. To me it appears to be some kind of an engagement bot, trying to create more activity on the site.
Barozi said:
Why would a bot have supporter status? |
The bot would not have set up his own account. And what better way is there to make camouflage to be able exist longer before being banned, or to just be able to give the impression that it's one of us.
...to avoid getting banned for inactivity, I may have to resort to comments that are of a lower overall quality and or beneath my moral standards.
