Lola at the Coffee House

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Walter's first post on this thread

http://able2know.org/topic/207441-1#post-5242814

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Thanks for the welcome, Lola! It's not so crowded here as it is in my (until now) favourite Coffee & Tea Bar at Irving Place/Gramercy. A double espresso and a plain butter-croissant for me, please.

annoying new copybot's post on this thread

http://able2know.org/topic/207441-118#post-5289148

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Thanks for the welcome, Lola! It's not so crowded here as it is in my (until now) favourite Coffee & Tea Bar at Irving Place/Gramercy. A double espresso and a plain butter-croissant for me, please.

(with some added broken link crap added)

you recognize them if you have a memory for posts

nasty critters

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@ossobuco,

ossobuco wrote:

Matt, I'd probably like those cookies.

I'll split a few with you Osso.
They are great with coffee.
I could even write down a recipe if you want.

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@Lola,

Lola wrote:

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oh great
a new copybot has arrived

How does one identify a copy bot?

Turn it over and look at its bum. If it's stamped "copy", it's a copy bot.

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@farmerman,

I wish MAPorsche the best of luck!
My Uncle (the one with the syrup) hiked the Appalacians as a young man.
It was a pretty momentous journey. I think he started in New York and ended in Alabama. He brought nothing more than a backpack, small tent, some stamps, and (I think) $500. It has been a while since we talked about it. I know it was a "defining" time in his life.
The lessons were not so much about self-reliance, but also the amazing amount of kindness from strangers.
That reminds me a bit of my notion of what Boy Scouting once was.
He didn't get any badges. Just a lot of friends.

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@ehBeth,

Do we report such posts as "spam"?
What is the best way to deal with the problem?

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@dlowan,

This one is now posting on some other threads, too. Same screen name. The Full Moon thread, for example.

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@Lustig Andrei,

I think it must have hit a dozen threads tonight. I'm curious what the programmer is trying to achieve.

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@ehBeth,

That's what I don't understand. What is the purpose of the bum stamped copy?

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@Lola,

If you click on thumbs down, the entire post goes away.

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@ehBeth,

It is now painfully obvious that ehBeth has me on [ignore]. Sad

Does any one else who has more than 4 weeks experience on forums, have a suggestion regarding whether "copy bots" posts should be reported as [spam]?

I would love to help eliminate any plagues of plagiarism.

Roger has been more than helpful with such advice in the past.

Osso... am I left to a ferrell A2K child? Baying at the moon with the rest of the wolves?

Wassau... Would you mind sending ehBeth my apologies for whatever I did to offend her? Maybe send with those apologies a drink of her choosing.

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@ehBeth,

Why would anyone want to spend time doing that????

My wife is in Barrington IL decorating someone's house and having a ball buying furnishings and stuff with OPM. I'm Just back from a very pleasant dinner with my grown daughters at a very good and unpretentious local Italian restaurant, where I had some good wine, great brioches and delightful veal cutlets. I'm now at the age in which my daughters feel empowered to give me advice and instruction in how to be ... au curant, with it, and safe. At least those appear to be the subjects they are focused on now (apparently I have been found deficient in all three categories). I'm not that accustomed to taking the advice of others (probably a fault), and this appears to be an evolving new phase in life for which I may be ill-equipped. We'll see what comes next.

Otherwise, I am content and happy to be here in the coffeehouse. I wish everyone here well, including the many who disagree with my views on important things. Its late, Wassau, I'll have a whiskey.

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@MattDavis,

MattDavis wrote:

Do we report such posts as "spam"?
What is the best way to deal with the problem?

Yes, report it as spam.

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@dlowan,

Thanks

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Bot, of course, is a shortening of robot. We have been getting swamped with content bots since last May. It's pretty easy to spot them, although i'm not going to explain that here where their creators could read about it, and then correct them to hide the telltale clues. The content bots will respond to certain key words in text to drop off content. So, for example, if i have a customer who sells tires, then i send spiders (a type of bot which just "crawls" the web looking for key words) out to find posts about tires or automobiles. Then my content bot goes over our data base on tires, copies the content and then goes to the sites which have been identified and drops off the content:

Joe's Tires are the best deal in town! Buy our tires or we'll kill your dog.

I'm now wondering if the copy bots here might not be trial runs to creating more sophisticated content bots. We get, in my experience, only one copy bot at a time, and only now and again. So, i suspect the copy bots are trial runs for content bot programming.

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Here's an example of a content bot at work. This is taken from a thread in which the author asks if McDonald's food is really as bad for you as people say:

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Hello Friends,

Chef Daniel Coudreaut is the senior director of culinary innovation for McDonald’s USA the guy who knows every single fry and apple pie on the drive-thru board. He recently had a chat with a Cleveland journalist where he defended the offerings his employers put forth for 26 million Americans, saying, “I don’t see anything on the menu that’s unhealthy.” Coudreaut, speaking with the Akron Beacon Journal, isn’t just blindly defending the food, as he says his own kids eat at McDonald’s about once a week, and that they even eat Chicken McNuggets. Which, by the way, are what culinarians would call “forcemeat,” he says. Ground white meat, shaped and tempura battered, then fried.

Thanks and Regards,
Milon Jones

There are glaring telltales that this is a bot. This bot has picked up copy and dropped it off at a site where the spiders found key words about McDonald's pseudo-food and nutrition.

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@Lola,

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As its name suggests, a sand wedge is used most often to extract the ball from a sand bunker. However, the features which make it useful for this purpose are advantageous in other soft lies such as thick rough, soggy ground or mud. It's also used from firmer grass lies for lobs or chips, generally onto the green. It can also be used as any other short iron would; with a full swing, a skilled golfer can typically hit a sand wedge between 80–100 yards (70–90 m)

Yup...and that is the reason so many golfers who try get into trouble.

BEST BET: Unless you are a pro...don't use your sand wedge except from a bunker. I carry three wedges...a pitching wedge; a sand wedge; and a gap wedge. The gap wedge is for short, short shots that have to get up fast and stop quickly; the pitching wedge is from 75 yards to 110 yards out depending on conditions. The sand wedge is for getting out of bunkers. (Except that I often get into trouble because I think I can use the sand wedge when the lie is just right!)

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@Frank Apisa,

By the way...didn't Pussy get whacked while on the Stugots?

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@MattDavis,

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Response in PM

Thanks millions - most helpful - have replied by PM. Cool

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I gather that some false information was given out recently in here about various types of golf wedges.

The purpose of those items is not as, I gather, was stated but to increase the profits of golf equipment manufacturers and distributors by flattering the vanity of certain types of people who, it must be presumed, are needful of such extraordinary facilities.

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