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Explain XKCD to me
LTK:
Quotespam. That's clever.
jackmort:
If I don't get a joke on XKCD I look it up, and then I've learned
so it's win win really
est:
--- Quote from: LTK on 30 Jul 2010, 00:38 ---Quotespam. That's clever.
--- End quote ---
That is the first thing I thought, too. It's a lot more innocuous than the other forms of forum spam. A+ for effort, but also A+ for annoyance.
est:
Was also kind of sophisticated if it was automated, because it picked up that Khar & I were only talking, then that Jamie had posted photos she'd taken, and also that we were talking about music in the MF thread & suggested another band after the quotespam. Nice.
I bet that in a few years we'll have spambots that are so sophisticated that we don't pick up on them at first. That is at once both exciting and troubling.
est:
I've got $50 on the first autonomous AI starting its own marketing firm.
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