Echo echo echo

[Charles Darnay]

Just throwing this out there:

Has anyone else noticed that certain posters do nothing but echo a previous post in a thread? Is this weird spam? Annoying people? Misguided people? Some form of post-post-postmodern expression?

[MANICHAEAN]

Ah Charles.

But what if there occurs posters, anticipating other posters threads. A bit of a pre-emptive strike so to speak!

What would that heinous crime be classified as?

Regards

M.

[Delta40]

I've noticed two posters. I looked at one poster's profile to see if there was a pattern but they had been contributing in other forums so maybe they just had a bad day? :-)

[billl]

I've seen it at another website I go to as well. I've reported maybe 3 or 4 of them to the LitNet Admin over the past month maybe? Each time, it was the same account copy-posting in multiple threads in a limited time-frame. I am pretty sure the accounts were each deleted.

Obviously, nothing is being advertised, and there's no apparent danger with these posts. But there's no point having them around, they are almost certainly not people, and who knows what links, etc. they might begin posting once they've attained some sort of "trustworthy" comment count? They might even, on occasion, confuse someone who's been reading through and then mistakes one for a serious reply. So I report them, and maybe the Admin will get rid of them. I've never seen one (here or at the other site I comment at) respond to any real conversation in a meaningful way.

Then again, maybe eliminating dumb "spam" (or whatever it should be called at this point) simply leads to the development of more ingenious forms...

[Delta40]

I always report those soccer links ads that occasionally infect our forums.

[Varenne Rodin]

Maybe they're robots who want to be people. Maybe they are just learning to love.

[Logos]

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Has anyone else noticed that certain posters do nothing but echo a previous post in a thread? Is this weird spam? Annoying people? Misguided people? Some form of post-post-postmodern expression?

Links to examples of said member(s)/posts/threads would be helpful :)

It is very possible they're a spammer, lying in wait, or racking up post count in order to have links in their signature line etc. for spammy related things.

[billl]

Links to examples of said member(s)/posts/threads would be helpful :)


Here's a recent one (post number 6), with an attempted smiley inserted at the beginning:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1133033#post1133033

I looked over Harriet's other posts, and they all came in a brief five minute burst about one day ago. And they are all (well, I checked three of them) "echoes" of prior posters in the thread.

[Delta40]

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68292

The poster copied the OP's comment and posted it as their own.

[PoeticPassions]

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68292

The poster copied the OP's comment and posted it as their own.

I think the same poster did the same thing on a thread of one of Hillwalker's poems. Hillwalker called the poster out.

[Logos]

yup those are new breed of spammer loll..

[Charles Darnay]

It's a very silly form of spamming.

[Charles Darnay]

Maybe they're robots who want to be people. Maybe they are just learning to love.

Great, now I'm going to read said post in Brent Spiner's voice :)

[Varenne Rodin]

Haha. That was the goal. ;)