From: jolly@fisher.men   
      
   On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 13:36:03 -0000 (UTC)   
   rek2 hispagatos  wrote:   
      
   > ["Followup-To:" header set to alt.2600.hackers.]   
   > On 2024-08-29, 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?   
   >   
   >   
   > Well, as you can see in the groups you posted, there if there was   
   > before any trolls, they are not any now, google groups is gone,(good)   
   > a lot of trolls desisted and many new people.   
   > Do you want the new people to get annoyed and leave? or engange in   
   > good conversations?   
      
   That's the rub. New people can't participate because these hounds   
   mercilessly attack without reason. They are keeping any new people from   
   participating. Some of them post up to hundreds of abusive posts per   
   day. Who wants to spend more time managing filters than reading and   
   posting?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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