I’m potentially in the minority here, but what drove me up the wall were threads on a very interesting original post, whose comments were just endless chains of puns and lazy jokes, rather than any actual discussion.
A few are, but I think most aren’t. It would be easy bot bait, but at the same time, it’s also fairly context-sensitive in a way that would let a fair few users pick up on someone being a bot or not.
Although that doesn’t mean that you can’t have bots that are in on the joke.
I’m potentially in the minority here, but what drove me up the wall were threads on a very interesting original post, whose comments were just endless chains of puns and lazy jokes, rather than any actual discussion.
I wonder how many of those comments were actually bots or nowadays generated by AI!
A few are, but I think most aren’t. It would be easy bot bait, but at the same time, it’s also fairly context-sensitive in a way that would let a fair few users pick up on someone being a bot or not.
Although that doesn’t mean that you can’t have bots that are in on the joke.
People with x in name, how would you do y.
It’s always bots with prepared names