So - are all the strange introductions a series of bots or

Whatever they are, I have started voting them down.

Not sure if it's legit, or a whole class of ESL students?

I participate here sometimes semi asleep chugging coffee, so I don't know.

Still, we all know there are a huge number of people introducing themselves and asking to share with us their information.

I won't pay attention to any of that but I feel badly re the likes of people who used to just sign on here. Many very sharp people.

I tend to give the benefit of doubt, but my, there has been a rash of them in the past week or two, haven't there.

The annoying thing is that the content of them is almost identical from one to the other. Did an instructor write this on the blackboard and then send the students forth? Is the instructor ignorant of how web fora work or are the students?