28th of March is Spambot Birthday
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Law Bringer
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written Friday, March 16 2007 00:35
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In the series of recent celebratory topics, I present you with something I got out of aggregated Endeavor stats. Because you know, around the ides of the month I always get this statistical tingling; it can't be helped. At least no post-ranking. I was looking at the site and noticed that an awful lot of people seemed to have their birthday today - no less than 8. (Happy birthday to you too, Rosycat). So I wondered if there were a lot of such "high-birthday" days on the forum. A table with all 1098 birthdays revealed this distribution of the top ten. As you can see, today is indeed one of the top multiple birthdays here. But 28th of March wins the prize. Naturally, I wanted to know how the hell it came to be that a single day had ten times as many birthdays as the next in ranking. Another long-unnoticed technical glitch? Nope. Because see, 1983/03/28 is the birthday of the spambots. I kid you not. Dozens of these bots have that date set as the birth date. It's obviously not chosen randomly, and nor is this the default value. Something to ponder. In any case, even though that day is still two weeks off, I would like to take this opportunity to wish our resident spambots a happy birthday, and present them with a spam pie. Okay, so it's a spam pie chart. Blame Google Images. (It would have been kind of ironic to post this as EndeavorBot...) [ Friday, March 16, 2007 00:35: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Friday, March 16 2007 06:39
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I'd wish them a happy birthday too, but then they might start expecting stuff like cards and presents and cake. I don't want them to start thinking I like them or anything. So what did you put for EndeavorBot's b-day? -------------------- "Even the worst Terror from Hell can be transformed to a testimony from Heaven!" - Rev. David Wood 6\23\05 "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can." - John Wesley Posts: 1001 | Registered: Tuesday, August 19 2003 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Friday, March 16 2007 09:10
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I was going to suggest March 28, but you probably know when the EndeavorBot was first put online. It really does have a birthday! —Alorael, who will have a present for Spam Day. It will not be a cake and there will not be flavoring. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Friday, March 16 2007 12:22
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Sinister. There may be an evil mod lurking somewhere, releasing these things into the forums... Lately, I've been itching to get my hands on a spambot. I don't know why. -------------------- You Shall Die Laughing: http://www.worfthecat.ermarian.net/converted The Roost: www.roost01.proboards104.com. Birds of a feather flock together. Posts: 794 | Registered: Thursday, July 27 2006 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Friday, March 16 2007 12:32
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Actually, the amont of ham in that pie chart is... promising. -------------------- You lose. Posts: 2156 | Registered: Thursday, August 24 2006 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Friday, March 16 2007 15:33
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By the way, while we're on the topic of bots, Enraged Slith gave a supposed bot a picture of a trowel. I never got that little joke. -------------------- You Shall Die Laughing: http://www.worfthecat.ermarian.net/converted The Roost: www.roost01.proboards104.com. Birds of a feather flock together. Posts: 794 | Registered: Thursday, July 27 2006 07:00 |
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written Friday, March 16 2007 15:38
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quote:It started in the Geneforge forum. Somebody mentioned taking everything in an area except for unsellable trowels, I pointed out that "unsellable trowel" sounded hilarious, and it kind of snowballed from there to the point that "unsellable trowel" has become a generic if seldom-used insult. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Friday, March 16 2007 15:46
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Thank you. Now I have yet another verbal/visual weapon to add to my arsenal of bot-lethal weapons. -------------------- You Shall Die Laughing: http://www.worfthecat.ermarian.net/converted The Roost: www.roost01.proboards104.com. Birds of a feather flock together. Posts: 794 | Registered: Thursday, July 27 2006 07:00 |
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? Man, ? Amazing
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written Friday, March 16 2007 15:56
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The adolescent posturing in this place never ceases to -------------------- quote: Posts: 4114 | Registered: Monday, April 25 2005 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Friday, March 16 2007 16:03
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It's not posturing. It's my evil sense of humor. And/or sarcasm. -------------------- You Shall Die Laughing: http://www.worfthecat.ermarian.net/converted The Roost: www.roost01.proboards104.com. Birds of a feather flock together. Posts: 794 | Registered: Thursday, July 27 2006 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Friday, March 16 2007 16:22
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It figures that the spambots are all Aries. And the next highest co-occurence is fellow Cancer. Well, I feel better. :D It would be interesting to break down all birthdays into a statistics chart, Aran. quote:Unlike your sentence which -S- -------------------- A4 Item Locations A4 Singleton G4 Items List G4 Forging List The Insidious Infiltrator Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |