Re: Moral Dilemma

"Auric__" <[email protected]> Fri, 30 Aug 2024 05:59:36 -0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups news.groups,alt.cyberpunk,alt.2600.hackers
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Angler wrote:

> A long time ago some really nasty trolls were verbally abusing me in the
> newsgroups. I figured right quick that any response would only lead to
> more abuse so I stopped posting to the groups and I went my merry way.
>
> But before I left I set up a GPT-style bot to autopost to the groups
> each time they reply to my bot posts. After nearly two years later I
> opened the groups in a news reader to discover that the same trolls had
> been responding to the bot posts all that time. They were still going at
> it with their abuse of the bot. The retards are oblivious.
>
> I have a moral dilemma. I feel a bit guilty, knowing that my bot has
> wasted what probably amounts to dozens of hours of their pathetic lives
> reading and responding to my bot posts.
>
> Should I pull the plug on the bot?
>
> Or should I set the bot to use more aggressive phrases and get popcorn?

Do you really need to ask?

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