Ivan
Owl Country
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« on: February 11, 2008, 05:16:10 PM » |
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There have been these non-spammy, rational comments left on TIGs proper by people with names linking to blogs like this one: http://www.cleancorpse.org/And all the blogs in their blogroll are the same strange auto-blogs. Now the the comments they leave are not at all spammy, like this one from the DF stories post.
"Killed by a spinning vomit projectile? Hahahaha I love the imagination of these game authors. The baby drowning himself scene would not be the scariest thing I have encountered in these games though. I’d rather not mention. Gulp."They are quite obviously either humans or very advanced parsers, very carefully injecting links to their autoblogs in popular sites like TIGSource. I couldn't for the longest time figure out WHY anyone would do that, but a friend of mine suggested that it's maybe for building up page rank in google to prep a domain for SEO. I think that's dead on, but still super weird. What do you think? edit: We also found this link http://www.domainforums.com/showthread.php?t=6179 |
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« Last Edit: February 11, 2008, 05:21:02 PM by toastie »
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Derek
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« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2008, 08:11:40 PM » |
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Yeah, that's really weird. I hope to God they are real, stupid people and not ultra-smart spambots.  Anyway, I deleted them all. |
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Alex May
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hen hao wan
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« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2008, 03:17:37 AM » |
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I have a zombie blog!
oh wait
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Alex May
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« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2008, 05:59:42 AM » |
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ravuya
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« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2008, 06:37:40 AM » |
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Sure sounds like SEO spam to me. That whole industry is so sleazy. I appreciate the Markov chain babble though.
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Chris Whitman
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« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2008, 08:29:30 AM » |
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I've never got Markov chain text generation to work that well.
With the right training set, there's a good moment where it kind of clicks enough to sound like a really weird foreign guy, but eventually probability distributions get closer to uniform again, I guess, because then it starts sounding really disjointed.
Seriously, though, I don't get it. These guys don't even seem to be selling anything.
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« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2008, 08:43:40 AM » |
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I think this is the internet as an entity, becoming self aware and learning. It invented blogs and linked them to each other to make itself feel like its part of its own community.
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Corpus
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« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2008, 10:04:03 AM » |
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I think this is the internet as an entity, becoming self aware and learning. It invented blogs and linked them to each other to make itself feel like its part of its own community.
Imagine if that were actually true! It would be terrifying. |
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Stij
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« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2008, 01:08:13 PM » |
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I think the internet is actually alive, and has been playing an elaborate pratcial joke on us for years. It's the only explanation for some of the idiots out there... |
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Melly
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« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2008, 03:43:58 PM » |
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I think this is the internet as an entity, becoming self aware and learning. It invented blogs and linked them to each other to make itself feel like its part of its own community.
Imagine if that were actually true! It would be terrifying. It isn't?? |
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Gazillion
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« Reply #10 on: February 29, 2008, 11:39:20 AM » |
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Well it could be an interesting experiment. You build a bunch of bots that analyze various blogs and finds patterns in the user comments in relation to the post it's replying to. From there it builds a bunch of different responses to different sentence structures and knows that the ones that get a reply on its own fake blogs were good so it keeps them and throws out the rest. Slowly the fake blog get smart enough to pass a turring test and slowly builds up a user base. After a while it tries to influence its members to lobby candidates to pass legislatures that sends a lot of funds to AI advancement... Toastie, you figured out they were bots way too soon. I'd be careful if I were you |
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Xion
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« Reply #11 on: February 29, 2008, 04:32:36 PM » |
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I keep seeing the title of this thread and thinking it has to do with zombie blogs. |
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Derek
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« Reply #12 on: February 29, 2008, 06:34:47 PM » |
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« Reply #13 on: February 29, 2008, 08:08:36 PM » |
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The title of this thread sounds like a modern B-grade zombie movie like "Zombie Flesh Eaters".
They don't eat your brains, they rot it with dangerous media that keeps you locked inside and not out playing in the grass with your friends.
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Alevice
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« Reply #14 on: March 01, 2008, 12:08:14 AM » |
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Those 'dead' blogs truly give me some spine chills. As if there was something fucking dead leaving echoes or something. Hard to describe.
This, I presume, must be an Uncanny Valley effect, having a soulless device imitating human speech pattern and basic human interactin (the whole friend linking).
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Alex May
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« Reply #15 on: March 09, 2008, 02:19:42 PM » |
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Alex May
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« Reply #16 on: March 09, 2008, 02:20:28 PM » |
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