Testing, testing one-two-three - THIS IS NOW MOTHBALLED.

If you are having your posts in this place being pulled for being "offensive"....but they are not.....the group conciousness seems to indicate that abiding by these four points might help you.

(1) Using more than 3 separate quotes from other people's posts in your own triggers the bots.  [GENERAL RULE OF THUMB]

(2) If you post on a thread, you can edit that post only twice....because on the third attempt to edit your own post.....you will trigger the bots. [GENERAL RULE OF THUMB]

(3) Don't do repetitive things + don't try to be too cute (ie use multiple symbols or characters in a post.......use the same words on multiple threads in quick succession etc)

(4) Don't just post a www. link in isolation without an explanation of why you are posting it.

UPDATE....obviously, my posts here will look like I'm have some sort of episode AND if I'm successful, many of my posts will get "pulled" for different reasons.  This is easier than I thought...and substantially more inexplicable that I had anticipated.  Look at me....I'm messing with the bots heads!  Love it.

UPDATE 2....Hooray, the humans are winning !  This thread was started a wee while ago....but the humans were told by the bots to take a look so it got pulled.  The humans have spoken.  Long live (and respect) the humans who kindly allow this place to exist - as it does.  Thank you.

UPDATE 3....A kindly white hat (probably a black hat really) has told me that this thread is (at best) a dumb idea, and (at worst) a really bad idea.  I believe them.  I have found it VERY easy to trigger the bots.  The software used to kill spam in this place is like toddler AI......you don't want to antagonise it....unless you know PRECISELY what you are doing...I do not !  The algorithm is ever evolving and changing.

I will continue to fight the bots and spam where I find it - the old skool approach - and leave the clever stuff to clever people.  Mic drop.....my Number's up !