Published on 12, July, 2020
Where are all these ancient threads being dug up from? I look at them and many seem not to have had a post on them for months or even years, is there an onsire thread archaelogist?
I do wonder when someone with five points suddenly resurrects a five year old thread without so much as a hello
Amerantin (former member) said: five points suddenly resurrects a five year old thread
Bots I think usually (Number, where are you?).
This time though it's one particular user, new, who has resurrected a lot of threads.
I counted early this morning how many had come back up via this member quite randomly and at that time it was the high 20s (yes, I do have better things to do) ...
There's a lot of it on this forum. If the bot (or whatever it is) isn't selling, then it's buying, so to speak.
I agree that sometimes these resurrected threads invite controversy, but they also seek opinion- and that's what it's about, (maybe) data gathering, for whatever purpose.
I would be cautious about responding to a long-dead thread. Its resurrection is a choice, requiring some effort. You're not likely to stumble across a 5, 10 year thread without looking.
Most actual people arriving here are either introducing themselves or joining current discussions.
Although whether all of them are actual people is another question.
Perhaps, but there are no recent comments in the posts. Not right away. They are just sort of static apparitions popping up in the middle of our very dynamic now-ness.
They also all share a certain negative vibe or bent that, to me, invites controversy.
Lots of them are real stinkers, too! This is valuable info.
You, dear Debbie, are a pattern hunter extraordinaire!
You think a bot, e? I have observed that these posts have no current comments at all when they first appear. I've been calling ghost-posts.
T said:nd I don't think people in Birmingham say color.
Good point
So was I. But it all looks conceivably botlike; the replies are all over the place (like to one random mini thread in a massive thread) and are always kinda vaguely connected to the post they're replying to but not that closely. And I don't think people in Birmingham say color.
I'm super sorry if that's a real person but right now I'm not seeing it.
Amerantin (former member) said:I was thinking about a potentiality Birmingham based person
Yep. I know that word.
They have actually completed their profile.
Sorry, I was thinking about a potentiality Birmingham based person
It seems unlikely in the extreme that someone would join and then almost immediately post in dozens of threads that have been dead for years like that. If it walks like a bot and quacks like a bot, the fact that its username isn't NAS45899 doesn't make it a human.
Amerantin (former member) said:I don’t have a problem with that
I don't either actually - as you know from my 'library' I rather like old threads.
In fairness, I think that person is simply a new user who has responded to a bunch of old threads and I don’t have a problem with that.