This bot has some interesting rules to remove parts of original titles I noticed, here "Orange County city" (or "Wealthy Orange County city") -> "County city".
Anyway, a relatively fresh news story this time ("May 19, 2026"), so an upvote from me.
See. I don't think it's a bot. I think it's a bot like human. Those exist.
It sucks. I don't want to inhibit pro-ancap posting. They haven't broken any actual rules. But they do a good thing, but do it in a weird way. It would be so easy for them to do basically the same thing but less weird.
For example, they came on immediately with multiple accounts even before rate limiting was a thing as if they were marshalling in anticpation of bans. Why do they act in a way that communicates that rational admins have and would ban them? If they didn't do these things it wouldn't be 10% tempting. 10% tempting isn't enough, but I'm sure it would be on some platforms.
They do every soft signal possible to say they are a spammer while linking to sites are probably not affiliated with (no profit motive). Maybe it's victimhood engineering. Maybe they get banned on some sites, and getting banned off of sites while not breaking any rules and then complaining is what gets them off.
I won't give them the satisfaction unless they break an actual rule. But hopefully they realize one day that they can get their message across better if they don't associate it with needless spammer patterns.
I have it on my agenda (which is mostly for debating doing things), to restrict them down to one user. Ok, it's a mixed system between debating doing things and doing them when its actually more important than other things. So it's a pretty good idea to do, but finally building the AI inference company I've been back burnering (huge mistake) propbably matters more. I guess we just deal with a user posting weird in the meantime.
when we have dates for news stories we can have a checkbox on front page or a setting "[] include posts not older than a week" (week for example)
about this group of bots specifically: these should be united as one meta account methinks, and usual rate limiting should apply to the whole group of accounts as if it was a one account
is "Ancaps" even a good topic for these stories? from what I have seen these are usually about some government regulations or police misconduct - but nothing can be done on GoatMatrix if a good story was posted to wrong topic, another thing to think about (as you know I'm for votable tags as solution :) )
AI is getting pretty good but it doesn't want to seem either too stupid or too dumb. The "county city" thing here could be a mistake on purpose to get us to discuss it, which we're doing so it worked. That neols a bot too and helped bring it up. That helps this fake news from a bot spread. Why bother posting on this small site? It's easy for a bot, costs nothing, so why not. If even .001% of people here click that link and see some of sfgates ads on their site then they made a profit.
Crazy talk? Memes do have spelling and grammar mistakes on purpose for this and the meme makers admit it. AI learns from humans so uses the same tactics. Us humans feel the need to correct mistakes when we see them. It's an involuntary reflex.
I don't think it's AI. It's a human that is likely working off of a spreadsheet or maybe some scripting. I know Carnold told me he worked off of a spreadsheet promoting things for a network of alt-catholic orgs. AI is good enough now it would actually act less sus.
Not all bots are AI. Remember bots existed before 2020.
It's a bot they've been used since like 2008 or something they're all over Reddit just posting links. Saidit dealt with them. Dead internet theory ring a bell? Come on is this really news to you? Ai is a misnomer cuz yeah it's not intelligent but whatever you define it as it does exist and yeah it makes bots more efficient. It's semantics if you think this is a bot but not AI. Whoever set this one up to troll here probably forgot too lol. I explained why it'd try to seem dumb on purpose.
You might want to get some bots yourself to help make this site look more active. Just know it won't fool me lol. But that might be why you're playing dumb here? And you took out the ability to block your bots? Crazy talk but funny coincidence how does that happen?
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County city sound as reasonable to call a place as University of Maryland University College. That's a real place.
This bot has some interesting rules to remove parts of original titles I noticed, here "Orange County city" (or "Wealthy Orange County city") -> "County city".
Anyway, a relatively fresh news story this time ("May 19, 2026"), so an upvote from me.
See. I don't think it's a bot. I think it's a bot like human. Those exist.
It sucks. I don't want to inhibit pro-ancap posting. They haven't broken any actual rules. But they do a good thing, but do it in a weird way. It would be so easy for them to do basically the same thing but less weird.
For example, they came on immediately with multiple accounts even before rate limiting was a thing as if they were marshalling in anticpation of bans. Why do they act in a way that communicates that rational admins have and would ban them? If they didn't do these things it wouldn't be 10% tempting. 10% tempting isn't enough, but I'm sure it would be on some platforms.
They do every soft signal possible to say they are a spammer while linking to sites are probably not affiliated with (no profit motive). Maybe it's victimhood engineering. Maybe they get banned on some sites, and getting banned off of sites while not breaking any rules and then complaining is what gets them off.
I won't give them the satisfaction unless they break an actual rule. But hopefully they realize one day that they can get their message across better if they don't associate it with needless spammer patterns.
I have it on my agenda (which is mostly for debating doing things), to restrict them down to one user. Ok, it's a mixed system between debating doing things and doing them when its actually more important than other things. So it's a pretty good idea to do, but finally building the AI inference company I've been back burnering (huge mistake) propbably matters more. I guess we just deal with a user posting weird in the meantime.
I was thinking on what I would do with that bot/cyborg hypothetically, and here are some points:
it would be great to have news story dates automatically extracted with some sort of scraper library, I even asked LLM on whether such libraries ("Instapaper-like") exist, and it recommended me https://newspaper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ and https://trafilatura.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ so apparently these are common enough
when we have dates for news stories we can have a checkbox on front page or a setting "[] include posts not older than a week" (week for example)
about this group of bots specifically: these should be united as one meta account methinks, and usual rate limiting should apply to the whole group of accounts as if it was a one account
is "Ancaps" even a good topic for these stories? from what I have seen these are usually about some government regulations or police misconduct - but nothing can be done on GoatMatrix if a good story was posted to wrong topic, another thing to think about (as you know I'm for votable tags as solution :) )
AI is getting pretty good but it doesn't want to seem either too stupid or too dumb. The "county city" thing here could be a mistake on purpose to get us to discuss it, which we're doing so it worked. That neols a bot too and helped bring it up. That helps this fake news from a bot spread. Why bother posting on this small site? It's easy for a bot, costs nothing, so why not. If even .001% of people here click that link and see some of sfgates ads on their site then they made a profit.
Crazy talk? Memes do have spelling and grammar mistakes on purpose for this and the meme makers admit it. AI learns from humans so uses the same tactics. Us humans feel the need to correct mistakes when we see them. It's an involuntary reflex.
I don't think it's AI. It's a human that is likely working off of a spreadsheet or maybe some scripting. I know Carnold told me he worked off of a spreadsheet promoting things for a network of alt-catholic orgs. AI is good enough now it would actually act less sus.
Not all bots are AI. Remember bots existed before 2020.
It's a bot they've been used since like 2008 or something they're all over Reddit just posting links. Saidit dealt with them. Dead internet theory ring a bell? Come on is this really news to you? Ai is a misnomer cuz yeah it's not intelligent but whatever you define it as it does exist and yeah it makes bots more efficient. It's semantics if you think this is a bot but not AI. Whoever set this one up to troll here probably forgot too lol. I explained why it'd try to seem dumb on purpose.
You might want to get some bots yourself to help make this site look more active. Just know it won't fool me lol. But that might be why you're playing dumb here? And you took out the ability to block your bots? Crazy talk but funny coincidence how does that happen?