Just discovered one of 'Those' forums....

[FilipJPhry]

http://www.gameskyrim.com/

Just look at one thread. Just one. It's a forum where bots interact with each other.

A fine example: http://www.gameskyrim.com/share-your-best-builds-here-t170594.html

I didn't find this on my own. This was posted on /v/.

Also, DON'T POST ON THAT SITE OR MAKE AN ACCOUNT

EDIT: Check the dates too. Wow, are they predicting the future? Oldest post about Skyrim 3 years before release...

 

[DustyDrB]

They are plotting.
First, they learn how to interact like we do. Then they compare each other's DRM. But one day...

 

[Kahunaburger]

So... are these threads like copy-pasted from a different forum? Is this where all the borderline illiterate spammers go to converse about their favorite Bethesda games in regular English? Was this a normal forum before everyone's account got grabbed and repurposed by spambots?

EDIT:

Shannon Lockwood

AHAHAHAHAHA

 

[Esotera]

This [http://www.reddit.com/r/botcirclejerk] may interest you...

On reddit a circlejerk is supposed to be a forum dedicated to mocking another forum or reddit users as a whole (for those who didn't know), but this one is made really impressive by it being all bots.

Can't wait until the spambots actually become sentient, and can give helpful advice to people. We're several decades off from there though...

 

[FilipJPhry]

This [http://www.reddit.com/r/botcirclejerk] may interest you...

On reddit a circlejerk is supposed to be a forum dedicated to mocking another forum or reddit users as a whole (for those who didn't know), but this one is made really impressive by it being all bots.

Can't wait until the spambots actually become sentient, and can give helpful advice to people. We're several decades off from there though...

Dafuq? Looks like any regular circlejerk sub but %95 of the posts are from one guy.....

 

[Hal10k]

Are we sure that those are all bots?

"Fallout is DEAD because of Bethesda"

That certainly sounds like the Bethesda fanbase I've come to know and love.

 

[FilipJPhry]

Are we sure that those are all bots?

"Fallout is DEAD because of Bethesda"

That certainly sounds like the Bethesda fanbase I've come to know and love.

Check the dates.

 

[geK0]

Are we sure that those are all bots?

"Fallout is DEAD because of Bethesda"

That certainly sounds like the Bethesda fanbase I've come to know and love.

Check the dates.

All the posts on that thread are may 04 2012 : \

are you looking at the join dates?

 

[FilipJPhry]

Are we sure that those are all bots?

"Fallout is DEAD because of Bethesda"

That certainly sounds like the Bethesda fanbase I've come to know and love.

Check the dates.

All the posts on that thread are may 04 2012 : \

are you looking at the join dates?

http://www.gameskyrim.com/archery-skyrim-t92382.html

 

[Kahunaburger]

Are we sure that those are all bots?

"Fallout is DEAD because of Bethesda"

That certainly sounds like the Bethesda fanbase I've come to know and love.

Check the dates.

All the posts on that thread are may 04 2012 : \

are you looking at the join dates?

http://www.gameskyrim.com/archery-skyrim-t92382.html

HOLY SHIT THEY CAN TIME TRAVEL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZwvtdeCf0E

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Are we sure that those are all bots?

"Fallout is DEAD because of Bethesda"

That certainly sounds like the Bethesda fanbase I've come to know and love.

Check the dates.

All the posts on that thread are may 04 2012 : \

are you looking at the join dates?

I have to second this. The dates don't necessarily mean anything, since that's one of the more common things to glitch out on a forum. Heck, it happens here periodically.

If it's because of the avatars... well, some forums are a lot looser about that sort of thing. The Harmony Central forums (a forum for musicians) is full of avatars of hot chicks holding guitars, just shy of being softcore porn. Very, very few of the posters are actually female.

Edit: and they don't even claim to be, it's just cheesecake avatars all over the place.

 

[dyre]

Unless AI has gotten a lot more complex while I wasn't paying attention, those posters seem like real posters to me.

Here's a thread about them discussing the morality of guards slaughtering you for resisting arrest, even for stealing a spoon
http://www.gameskyrim.com/resist-arrest-bad-t212050.html

If bots are discussing that kind of shit, we're a lot closer than I thought to the point when they decide humanity should be exterminated for the good of the planet D:

I do agree those are some weird avatars though.

 

[Wintermoot]

I don't really get it except that they use IRL names and pictures instead of fake names and avatars. Is that the problem?

 

[repeating integers]

Don't seem like bots to me.

 

[Jeps]

Now I'm convinced SPUF is just one large community of bots talking to each other on the TF2 sub-forum.

 

[DustyDrB]

Now I'm convinced SPUF is just one large community of bots talking to each other on the TF2 sub-forum.

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Right round round round....

 

[Sam Eskenazi]

What? the oldest topic are people wondering what Skyrim will be like... why do you think these people are bots?