XPost: news.groups, alt.cyberpunk   
   From: not.my.real@email.address   
      
   Angler wrote:   
      
   > A long time ago some really nasty trolls were verbally abusing me in the   
   > newsgroups. I figured right quick that any response would only lead to   
   > more abuse so I stopped posting to the groups and I went my merry way.   
   >   
   > But before I left I set up a GPT-style bot to autopost to the groups   
   > each time they reply to my bot posts. After nearly two years later I   
   > opened the groups in a news reader to discover that the same trolls had   
   > been responding to the bot posts all that time. They were still going at   
   > it with their abuse of the bot. The retards are oblivious.   
   >   
   > I have a moral dilemma. I feel a bit guilty, knowing that my bot has   
   > wasted what probably amounts to dozens of hours of their pathetic lives   
   > reading and responding to my bot posts.   
   >   
   > Should I pull the plug on the bot?   
   >   
   > Or should I set the bot to use more aggressive phrases and get popcorn?   
      
   Do you really need to ask?   
      
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