I also found out he literally ran a Markov chain-based bot on Usenet: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V.... You don't get to complain about unconsenual interactions with bots if you do that!

used to gather a corpus of annoying posters on facebook many years ago and when they'd respond to me i would feed them back a markov chained crap-pile at 20 minute intervals until i woke up the next morning. dudes would tilt with poltergeist mirror versions of themselves for hours at a time

If it means anything, uh, same hat!

I'd apologize for linking to the other site but I'm not actually sorry. I'd rather do that than have screenshots of this filth on my phone

Understandable. I'm done for the moment something just kinda snapped last night and I've been really pessimistic again.

What a day for it too.

This place sucks and if you're East Asian you would probably be better served on Misskey or somewhere where the moderation team is actually sensitive to this stuff and don't act like fandom children when called out on their double-standards

I at no point ever have been, because I have always relied on it to function. It didn't used to be like this.
Even today, there's a lot of people trying to do good things. Tech is not a monolith.
But the people developing it, the people funding it, and the people using it, have NO COMMUNICATION

(Website overhaul pending someone being arsed to do it)