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| Chat Line | Time | |
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| Nitrocosm: You probably know the story with the bots | 9 years ago at 4:34 pm | |
| Nitrocosm: When developing the new system, I needed large amounts of data to fill it in for testing | 9 years ago at 4:34 pm | |
| Doitsujin: I actually didn't know that story. | 9 years ago at 4:34 pm | |
| Nitrocosm: So I had to write a program that would generate artificial user accounts and, in turn, have those accounts post lots and lots of topics and content | 9 years ago at 4:35 pm | |
| Doitsujin: That's nifty. Sort of, spambots that work for a noble cause! | 9 years ago at 4:35 pm | |
| Nitrocosm: Ah. So, after invites went out and people started coming back and posting again, I turned off the bots that generated the "test" content but found some entertaining uses for them afterward | 9 years ago at 4:36 pm | |
| Nitrocosm: Yep! Spambots turned semi-useful. | 9 years ago at 4:36 pm | |
| Doitsujin: I like that. | 9 years ago at 4:36 pm | |
| Nitrocosm: Some forums use bots for legitimate advertising within their own system to help generate revenue. I most just use them for experimental purposes but the news bots turned out... | 9 years ago at 4:37 pm | |
| Nitrocosm: they turned out to post interesting things that sparked conversations | 9 years ago at 4:37 pm |
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