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Glad Tidings, and this is to Miss Endymion. You began this Thread, and so in order to Post upon it, I must "reply" to you, I apologise...!

My following Post is a long one which you might not follow/understand, due to (fortunately) not being party to the whole business. To yourself and any who may read, all of this was back in April, yet is still present. Only a few may understand it. I do not intend to explain it further, it is difficult to follow, and, well, it was nice knowing all of you...

Glad Tidings to whomever may read. However, this post is one of the last which I have put off for a long time, and so may not make sense to anyone unless they had been following it at the time, back in April. (Anyone may try to follow it now, but it is very complex, and spread over SIX different Threads!)

I shall refer to R** as "TP" ("That person") in this post. Reasons may become clear later. I wanted to explain my behaviour at the time, while I still have some good reputation left (!), and before it is forgotten, and before I must leave due to hot weather.

In short:
TP was posting very suspiciously, and seemed to be "stalking" a certain User (California). Once TP replied to others and then myself, I decided to try to divert this onto myself, for I cannot be "attacked" or "spammed" due to the way my devices work.
The reason I wrote things which I wrote, was because TP only seemed to respond to VERY short/simple words, sentences, and phrases. I am not used to speaking in this manner, and so I used the words "funny, cute, kittens, fluffy, like" ...& such... a lot.
TP responded positively at points, and even at last posted a list of their own "interests". However it was getting late, and so I posted the "Jabberwocky" Poem to end the "chat" for that night.
The next day... a lot of other Posts are there, of course, from other persons. This confuses what I was curious about, and even NAS posts a "warning". Because of all of this, I do not reply again, yet still watch TP. People try to engage, and converse, yet TP does not respond. I am told off for what I said, yet TP responds to no-one else, even as they are claiming defence of TP. NAS warns, yet still no response from TP.

...Eventually, TPs Threads are "forgotten", and this is what happens:
At at around 21h, of April 9th:
TP removes ALL of the starting Posts, to replace them with the text: "I was bored and not happy here" (sic).
April 10: TP removes their "Avatar".
April 10 (<>9 PM): TP blanks their entire Profile.
April 11: Picture changed to a "Cup of Tea".

...No-One seems to notice any of this. By now I have thought of another approach -Pictures instead of words. TP constantly asked for information and for pictures, and so I decide to reciprocate...
15.18h - I post a PICTURE to TP, because I seem not allowed to SPEAK..
...This gains good curiosity from California... but then "D.T." transcribes the words upon the picture, defeating the purpose of my posting that way. (a chatbot primarily checks words, not pictures.)
Others then post pictures as well... yet all this gains yet another "warning" from NAS?

All of this I cannot follow, and so I do not Post upon these Threads again. And yet, to prove a final point...
A later day... at 18.21h - ...I "Friend" TP. There are no words exchanged, the connection is instant. I cannot "friend" properly due to my devices, yet this successfully happened. And that is <> the end of the matter.

Now it is June, and since then, TP has posted like a "bookmark", upon some other Threads where people have been detailing their interests and habits. But despite persons saying that they are interested in TP... TP does not reply. (This may change if I post this, and depending upon how much "hate" I get?).
This was a long Post, and I make no apology for it. I still stay away from the business, even though TP is also "following" me (it said so in my notifications). That is all for this Post.

Thanks, DC, for putting all that on the record. I've read some of the threads involving 'TP', after 11 April, and myself couldn't decide whether TP is a bot (and part of my work is as a Botfinder General). The short, repeated comments with poor grammar might suggest a bot, but on balance I think 'TP' is real. (It doesn't help that  'TP' has the same name as the advanced replicant in Blade Runner. Maybe we should have a version of 'The Imitation Game' where you have to decide who is autistic and who NT.)

I don't think I saw the incident involving 'DT' and the picture. By the way, chatbots can defeat images and CAPTCHAs, often by another part of the bot getting a human to decode the image (so the human can gain access to some other site).  Is it a problem that we don't have a unified approach to suspicious posters? Last week's posts by the unnamed 'Copybot' are still up, and people have unfortunately started responding to the fake thread rather than the original.

Anyway, forums can be frustrating, and I hope you don't take anything too personally, and it doesn't put you off this forum.

Thanks, DC, for putting all that on the record. I've read some of the threads involving 'TP', after 11 April, and myself couldn't decide whether TP is a bot (and part of my work is as a Botfinder General). The short, repeated comments with poor grammar might suggest a bot, but on balance I think 'TP' is real. (It doesn't help that  'TP' has the same name as the advanced replicant in Blade Runner. Maybe we should have a version of 'The Imitation Game' where you have to decide who is autistic and who NT.)

I don't think I saw the incident involving 'DT' and the picture. By the way, chatbots can defeat images and CAPTCHAs, often by another part of the bot getting a human to decode the image (so the human can gain access to some other site).  Is it a problem that we don't have a unified approach to suspicious posters? Last week's posts by the unnamed 'Copybot' are still up, and people have unfortunately started responding to the fake thread rather than the original.

Anyway, forums can be frustrating, and I hope you don't take anything too personally, and it doesn't put you off this forum.

Thank You very much for this reply, Cassandro! You may notice that I am equally grateful to both yourself and to ProtectorOfTheSmall for the acknowledgement. Please also read my reply there as well.
To yourself... Thanks for saying what you did, about 'bots. I also still do not know what to make of it all, and so stay away from such suspicious things. However, here is a link to an area of it all which made a lot of us find things "creepy":

community.autism.org.uk/.../68998

Given the complexity of the Thread now, it is harder to see, so check the Indentation and the Posts before and after... but basically, after opening a lot of Threads, and stalking California, they became a bit unintelligible... - " Hello, what about you ? , what you like ? , what you do not like ? and what is your interest and hobbies ? " - as if resetting and then later replying to themselves, even.
That was the most "creepy" part, apart from constantly asking for pictures. NAS warned about that, but this was ignored.

I am not put off by this, and, as you know, I may leave soon due to hot weather. Thank You for your reply again, Please do keep up your good and vigilant work!