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GoldenEye 007 31 Oct @ 5:47pm

Close the steam forums

Why? only bots talk to each other

Pro:

- u save free space (no need to have big databases which keep track of trash)

Cons:

- people cant have discussions

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Ben Lubar 31 Oct @ 6:03pm

Are you a bot? Or are you not posting on the Steam forums? I'm trying to understand this scenario you're setting up.

GoldenEye 007 31 Oct @ 6:06pm

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:
Are you a bot? Or are you not posting on the Steam forums? I'm trying to understand this scenario you're setting up.

Explain to me why u mention TF2 in a Alien swarm review + why have u a chinese bot in ur comment section and ur entire profile seems sus ? Also explain to us why u comment on ur own profile ?

Also which sane person plays this game for 238 Hours?

Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling

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DarkCrystalMethod 31 Oct @ 6:10pm

For the amount of downtime these forums have I get the sqlite vibe rather than them using something more stable like Mariadb or Oracledb. I just hope its not Derby. If they're using postgres thats almost as good.

Also try getting the bots to agree with you. You can't. They don't have opinions other than what they were launched with.

GoldenEye 007 31 Oct @ 6:14pm

Originally posted by DarkCrystalMethod:
For the amount of downtime these forums have I get the sqlite vibe rather than them using something more stable like Mariadb or Oracledb. I just hope its not Derby. If they're using postgres thats almost as good.

Also try getting the bots to agree with you. You can't. They don't have opinions other than what they were launched with.

not trying to get the bots agree with me but Ben Lubar is clearly a bot...

datCookie 31 Oct @ 6:15pm

Originally posted by GoldenEye 007:
Originally posted by DarkCrystalMethod:
For the amount of downtime these forums have I get the sqlite vibe rather than them using something more stable like Mariadb or Oracledb. I just hope its not Derby. If they're using postgres thats almost as good.

Also try getting the bots to agree with you. You can't. They don't have opinions other than what they were launched with.
not trying to get the bots agree with me but Ben Lubar is clearly a bot...

He's not a bot...

I don't think I've ever encountered bot around, except hijacked accounts posting scam links that get removed.

There's no benefit to using them here.

rawWwRrr 31 Oct @ 6:18pm

Originally posted by GoldenEye 007:
Why? only bots talk to each other

Not true — but it does take one to recognize one. 😉

GoldenEye 007 31 Oct @ 6:18pm

Originally posted by datCookie:
Originally posted by GoldenEye 007:
not trying to get the bots agree with me but Ben Lubar is clearly a bot...

He's not a bot...

I don't think I've ever encountered bot around, except hijacked accounts posting scam links that get removed.

There's no benefit to using them here.

well somehow he has been commenting in several discussion forums in other games aswell and sometimes out of context

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Sciencemile 31 Oct @ 6:19pm

Ben Lubar is not a bot.

rawWwRrr 31 Oct @ 6:19pm

Originally posted by GoldenEye 007:
Originally posted by datCookie:

He's not a bot...

I don't think I've ever encountered bot around, except hijacked accounts posting scam links that get removed.

There's no benefit to using them here.
well somehow he is been commenting in several discussion forums in other games aswell and sometimes out of context

For someone who claims to not be a bot, you sure seem to have a bot's worth of knowledge about someone on the forums.

Knee 31 Oct @ 6:21pm

You have the ability to do this right now, OP. Simply stop using the forums and you’ll have achieved the same result. So what’s stopping you?

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cSg|mc-Hotsauce 31 Oct @ 6:22pm

It's well known that the CS2 game hub is full of chat bots spamming every where.

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GoldenEye 007 31 Oct @ 6:22pm

Originally posted by Knee:
You have the ability to do this right now, OP. Simply stop using the forums and you’ll have achieved the same result. So what’s stopping you?

trying to make it a better place

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DarkCrystalMethod 31 Oct @ 6:23pm

Yeah, and everyone in the VAC forum is actually innocent.

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AustrAlien2010 31 Oct @ 6:29pm

Do bots generally make grammatical or logical errors? I thought spelling mistakes were inherently human. Occasionally, I even think I can tell what keyboard layout someone is using because they accidentally type the key next to the one they're supposed to press.
What kind of bot could simulate such an error?

I suppose you could ask an AI bot to write "bad" English, but I don't know what it does if you ask it to. Would you try that? Or would you consider that an unethical experiment?

Ultimately, you can't know whether someone is a bot or not, because it's impossible to be 100% certain unless you own the bot. All such beliefs are based on probability, not facts, unless you know for sure yourself.

Last edited by AustrAlien2010; 31 Oct @ 8:32pm

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Ben Lubar 31 Oct @ 6:31pm

Originally posted by GoldenEye 007:
Also which sane person plays this game for 238 Hours?

Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling

I don't know the answer to this trivia question.

As someone who wrote an entire custom game engine for a Bug Fables fan game and is currently porting that game to Godot, I don't think I match that description.

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