Hi guys, I’m nervous what y’all think about this, I felt like is not correct

Wes - Are you still around, mate?  Woried.  Is the treatments ok?

Unknown said:

Rabbit won't like this observation....but ZERO points.

Hello Weslyy.....Nice to meet you.  What are the treatments that you are currently experiencing for ADHD and autism?  I am interested in them.

Unknown said:

Wes - Are you still around, mate?  Woried.  Is the treatments ok?

As you know, I do get very upset indeed when you bait new members who you suspect of being bots or spammers, with the aim of satisfying yourself that they’re human and genuine.

Neither bots nor scammers care who replies to them, but an absence of a reply to your baiting questions doesn’t prove anything.

During my time here, I’ve posted what I hope were helpful replies to countless people who also never either replied, upvoted my reply, nor ever posted again anywhere else on the forum. This also doesn’t prove that they were bots or spammers.

As I’ve shared before, your previous behaviour in routinely baiting people who you considered to be potentially “suspect” put me off posting actively here for a long time, because I had no desire to be baited or otherwise tested by you. 

This forum has enough issues already that lead people to, variously, not post at all, not reply, or leave.

Dissuading people from participating in the first place, or testing / badgering them when they do, is still not, in my opinion, remotely helpful to anyone. If bad actors (eg bots or spammers) do manage to join, then there's already a system in place to ensure they get dealt with. 

Bunny said:

I do get very upset indeed when you bait new members who you suspect of being bots or spammers, with the aim of satisfying yourself that they’re human and genuine.

I wonder if you appreciate the irony of an autist complaining about another autist exhibiting autistic behaviour.

Bunny said:

I do get very upset indeed when you bait new members who you suspect of being bots or spammers, with the aim of satisfying yourself that they’re human and genuine.

Do you have any constructive ideas on how we can filter out the bots then?

They do appear to be on the rise as more and more AI platforms start using sites such as this to train their models on our replies, so it would help to be part of the solution.

Bunny said:

During my time here, I’ve posted what I hope were helpful replies to countless people

Thank you for your service.

I note that a significant amount of your initial replies link to NAS pages with advice of the subject the posters are talking about - probably an effective way to deflect a bots intentions.

Do you think an AI bot would be able to do this in future? Not because your response is not valuable, but to provide a faster reply to the poster in the first place.

I do notice quite a few posts can go long times (many hours to a few days) without any reply to a tricky issue, plus some seem to just be a rant about something to get it off the posters chest, but for those really looking for help it can feel like a lifetime, or - worse - that nobody cares.

Part of the reason for this question is that I was working on training an AI IT support system 3 years ago and know it is capable of surprisingly effective things when the training has sufficiently detailed and quality information to work from.

Maybe this is a case of "to a man with a hammer every problem looks like a nail" as the Japanese would say, but since the thread was moving to bot discussions then I though it relevant.

Bunny said:

Don't patronise me

It wasn't intended as patronising. I highighted your contributions and acknowledged them - if you are reading somethine else into this I don't know what else to do as I feel attacked no matter what I do.

Bunny said:

Don't patronise me

It wasn't intended as patronising. I highighted your contributions and acknowledged them - if you are reading somethine else into this I don't know what else to do as I feel attacked no matter what I do.