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|    Moral Dilemma    |
|    29 Aug 24 15:13:53    |
      XPost: news.groups, alt.2600.hackers       From: jolly@fisher.men              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?              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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