I am officially confused.

[Epicspoon]

some of you may have noticed that there was just a spambot that posted two pointless threads (which I won't get into because I don't care) but something was weird about it. how did it have an account that was made tomorrow?

it's username was subme if you want to look.

I haven't been this confused since the time my friends and I turned on my friends wii and it displayed new super mario bros wii as the disc that was in the system, so we decided to play brawl but couldn't find it so I decided to eject new super mario bros wii to put it back in it's case and then Super smash brothers brawl came out instead. (true story)

 

[Marter]

some of you may have noticed that there was just a spambot that posted two pointless threads (which I won't get into because I don't care) but something was weird about it. how did it have an account that was made tomorrow?

it's username was subme if you want to look.

I'm not quite sure, but I think it's because the server time (used for things like username registration) runs separately from the time you choose to display the board at. It could be running on, say, a timezone somewhere in Europe. So, when you see their registration date, it would be hours ahead of you in America, and therefore would appear to be the next day.

That's my guess, at least. I don't think I'm explaining myself all that well, but hopefully you get what I mean.

 

[staika]

some of you may have noticed that there was just a spambot that posted two pointless threads (which I won't get into because I don't care) but something was weird about it. how did it have an account that was made tomorrow?

it's username was subme if you want to look.

I'm not quite sure, but I think it's because the server time (used for things like username registration) runs separately from the time you choose to display the board at. It could be running on, say, a timezone somewhere in Europe. So, when you see their registration date, it would be hours ahead of you in America, and therefore would appear to be the next day.

That's my guess, at least. I don't think I'm explaining myself all that well, but hopefully you get what I mean.

That's basically what I thought was going on here. But it will not stop me from thinking that they are actually a new breed of time traveling spambots! That sounds much cooler

 

[lacktheknack]

I'm pretty sure that the boards don't account for timezones when it displays the joined date. Unless spambots broke reality, which doesn't seem too farfetched...

 

[Epicspoon]

I'm pretty sure that the boards don't account for timezones when it displays the joined date. Unless spambots broke reality, which doesn't seem too farfetched...

yeah breaking reality DOES sound alot cooler.

 

[Aidinthel]

I like the idea of someone inventing a method of bending the fabric of time and using it to spam the Escapist. It means we're important.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Hmmm...if it is capable of time travel, would there be any point in banning it? I mean, it'd just go back before it was banned and spam again as much as it wanted.

 

[chaosyoshimage]

I wish I had a time traveling robot that advertised fine products. Ah, the adventures we'd have...

 

[Comando96]

Seemed very odd...

Normally bots post random crap... and a link...

This time... no link >.>

 

[Atoli]

how did it have an account that was made tomorrow?

What?