hello there, just joined in..:)

Hello wendyP but I did not actually understand the purpose of the arctile though :D

Dude, I think that's not a person, Darth South. I think it's a spam bot or whatever.

I kinda had the same feeling but the last person I accused turned out to be a human and was really angry with me so I rather not to take my chance :D

Either this person posted a random link, or these bots are getting more sophisticated, haha :D

Ok Wendy, sorry about that. But why the link?

Haha Robertneville I was afraid of this :D:D:D

Can you pass the Turing test? ;)

Can you get across the spam filter we have? ;)

What was the link about?

just because "she" is a "real human" doesn't mean it's not spam. designer babies, while disturbing, has absolutely nothing to do with the elder scrolls. also, who uses an actual photo of themself on a forum? any admins should probably get rid of this "wendy". no offense intended to "wendy", but maybe you should find a forum that is in some way related to your post.

edit: okay, i didn't realise this was in  the off-topic section. but still... this is "her" only post. in "her" reply to "I think it's a spam bot or whatever" was "I'm not a spam bot or whatever". classic chat-bot. also, the unnecessary use of emoticons. so, if "she" is not a chat-bot, and is, in fact, a real human, i highly doubt "she" is who "she" says "she" is. mainly because nobody says who they really are on forums. this is why i'm using quotes around gender pronouns...

I agree Meanwhilebacklash, she's way too generic. I still think she's a bot, just more sophisticated than the typical ones we've ran across.

Again, she hasn't brought up anything pertaining to the Elder Scrollls games, let alone this mod. So yeah, she's a bot. If she starts talking Morrowind or Oblivion, I'll eat my words :D

So you guys actually don't believe that I'm a seven foot tall Ninja Assassin who can solve crossword puzzles in my head, just by looking at them once?

Awww maaann....

So what exactly is a spam bot and what would the purpose of one be? Obviously a link to a website would be a form of advertising... Is that the only reason a spam bot would do what they do? And do they do anything other than post links to other sites?

What's the Turing Test? How does our spam filter work? (Oh, that's the one that does the picture of a word that we have to type right?) Oh, and what's a chat-bot? I hope I'm not a chat-bot, lol (On no! Unneccessary emoticon use!)

Man, I just have so many questions.

The photo also looks much more fake than Dark South's Doctor Who. (Oh Drat, that IS Doctor Who, isn't it?), so I don't think that's actually wendy we're looking at. (Though I can assure you with total confidence that my picture really is the hand of the Ninja Assassin Crossword puzzle solver.)

Whether real or not, Wendyp has definitly given some conversation and happyness to this forum. And hopefully I'm gonna get some learning out of this too. For that, we thank her.

;P

(from the intertubes...) The Turing test is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior. In Turing's original illustrative example, a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with a human and a machine designed to generate performance indistinguishable from that of a human being. All participants are separated from one another. If the judge cannot reliably tell the machine from the human, the machine is said to have passed the test.

Forum spambots surf the web, looking for guestbooks, wikis, blogs, forums and other types of web forms which it can then use to submit bogus content. These often use OCR technology to bypass CAPTCHAs. Some spam messages are targeted towards readers and can involve techniques of target marketing or even phishing, making it hard to tell real posts from the bot generated ones.

also, some people make spam bots purely for the fun of it. generic photos of random people are easily found and exploited.

i suggest you check out the A.L.I.C.E. project. it's a chat-bot that, at one point, passed the turing test.

Whoa, interesting stuff Meanwhile.

yeah, the bots are getting pretty sophisticated. it's not beyond the realm of possibility that they can even defend themselves when called out. of course, if this was a real person, they are completely alienated now!

Spammer status confirmed, account deleted, IP addresses banned

http://www.stopforumspam.com/ipcheck/121.97.231.131

Regularly uses the same email and username combos, same IP, and a reverse image lookup in TinEye found that this spammer had used that avatar before to spam other sites with weird links.

Wow, that really is interesting stuff Meanwhilebacklash.

Weird.