Question on ban announcements

[Magrat Garlick]

So this post was not made by an actual person but by a bot?

How does this work? Can some techie please explain? Extra points if you can start with what a bot is. All I know about bots is that I have to prove I am not one by typing some random letters or solving picture exercises before joining CW.

this post was already made on another forum a few days ago

Have you ever been banned from anywhere? | IGN Boards

i'm guessing whoever was behind the hbk bot (hi Nathan!) has a crawler going on popular forums and reposts popular questions from there

 

[fredfertang]

To their credit he (or she) is a Lancastrian bot

 

[Bijed]

Why would you need to do that. Are there members only areas that you have to log in to see?

I think some pictures may not appear if you're browsing as a guest depending on whether they're uploaded from someone's computer or grabbed from a web address, and then it depends on if the 'retrieve remote file' box was ticked.

 

[Daemon]

Nah the real reason why you would need an inactive multi when banned is for 'New Posts'

 

[OverratedSanity]

So you can like posts sarcastically then quickly unlike them before a mod sees

I made one while I was banned to do exactly that but ****ing pews had to be a killjoy and warned me to stop because liking is still technically 'contributing' to the forum.

 

[Howe_zat]

nah if you get banned, cop it

(unless you're daemon)

 

[cnerd123]

Whgat I would love to know is how did HBK 'like' a post...

The post in question:

Fatt is a dreadful name for a child

Possibly a clue??

 

[morgieb]

I just read in the announcements that "jade" has been banned. Whooooooooooooo?

Some moron troll from a much shittier forum.

 

[fredfertang]

Possibly a clue??

You may be on to something there, as he works for a web hosting company - what a little git - I feel a disinheritance coming on!

 

[Furball]

If you guys could just perma Francis that would be great.

 

[Burgey]

Few bans have given me as much joy as Tec15's.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

If you guys could just perma Francis that would be great.

speaking of byzantine workings, have you guys got round to working out the number of points for Francis yet?

 

[marc71178]

Give him 5 points for every troll and 2 for each one he converted into a bite IMO.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Few bans have given me as much joy as Tec15's.

Is this the same bloke who used to be TooExtraCool (or something like that) years ago.

 

[sledger]

Surely not.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Oh wow I never made the connection with the username

 

[Prince EWS]

speaking of byzantine workings, have you guys got round to working out the number of points for Francis yet?

Yeah he got 50. Not sure how long that makes him banned for because I didn't give the infraction, but it's a while.

 

[Prince EWS]

Is this the same bloke who used to be TooExtraCool (or something like that) years ago.

Nah, different guy.

 

[sledger]

What did Francis do?

Always struck me as a fairly harmless oddball. Never had much to do with him directly though

 

[StephenZA]

What did Francis do?

Always struck me as a fairly harmless oddball. Never had much to do with him directly though

Unless you spend time in the rugby thread you won't have much to do with him..... but he trolls a bit sometimes, but in this case made a bit of an inappropriate comment. I would not think enough to get a ban, but if he already had some points.