Magister Sieran

Unsolicited bot comments.

One to correct a minor grammar mistake, a second to call the first pedantic, and a bunch of good bot/bad bot replies to both, and now half the comment section is noise.

They’re rarely funny or interesting past the first time you encounter them, and their creators never willing to acknowledge that they’ve unleashed a pest.

Charming.

That is not what rule 3 means, and you are being hostile for no reason.

…I didn’t?

Fair, but why call me a Russian troll?

Fair enough, even if that’s not really YSK’s purpose. Thank you for not immediately jumping to hostility like the other three responders.

I have no idea how you arrived at that conclusion. Do you think I’m saying I oppose Kostyuchenko’s work?

YSK is for useful information, not random facts prefixed with “YSK that”.

Where’d you get that from? Fuck Trump, and fuck Putin too. I don’t oppose at all what this lady is doing, this kind of post is just not what YSK is for.

This community is all spam now.

Mods absent, evidently.

I swear nobody on this site knows what YSK is for.

Why should I know this?

Except the person OP is referring to has explicitly stated, in a comment on this very post, that it’s about AI for them.

They’re being extra.

Nah, she was just as prickly before.

Are you for real?

“Why don’t you like my daily posts of vague rambling?”

Rather not. One of the worst things about Reddit comments was the bot clutter.

Everyone has their own idea for a bot that’s interesting or funny or whatever, and maybe some of them are, but in the end there are just too many. You’d have a bot that corrects spelling errors, a bot to call that one pedantic, and a bunch of people voting “bad bot” on both, and before you know it half of the comments are just noise that didn’t need to be there.