New posting bot

[botany]

A user who is just starting off...

Aside from his role in national politics, Singh has also been elected on seven occasions to the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly.The first occasion was in a by-election in October 1983, when he was returned for the Jubbal-Kotkhai constituency.[citation needed] He won that seat again in the 1985 elections.[citation needed] Thereafter, he was elected from the Rohru constituency in 1990, 1993, 1998 and 2003.[citation needed]Senior BJP leader and union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday accused Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh of receiving bribe from a private company in the garb of an unsecured loan. However, Virbhadra Singh described the allegations as "political vendetta". Addressing a press conference in Delhi, the union minister for communications and information technology said that Virbhadra Singh snipped off crores of rupees as unsecured loan. "Venture Energy Technology Private Limited, whose project was revived by Virbhadra Singh...and after a while, the owner of the company gave Rs.1.5 crore as unsecured loan to the chief minister's wife and Rs.2.4 crore to the chief minister.

Copied from 2 articles, word to word, including the "citation needed" bit. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virbhadra_Singh
http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/virbhadra-accused-of-corruption-he-cries-vendetta-115072301605_1.html

[botany]

Another one....

Wijnaldum has been a challenging one to pin down this season. I thought he was brilliant early doors and was a very underappreciated player, but it's often only with closer inspection that you see what he does. When you pay real attention you see his influence, his strength and unshakable coolness on the ball. I'm reminded every time I discuss him by the way he was summed up by The Anfield Wrap after the derby.

Copied straight from
http://www.footballforums.net/threads/top-4.264884/page-5

[botany]

Reserve currency is currency held by central banks and other major financial institutions as a means to pay off international debt obligations, or to influence their domestic exchange rate. A large percentage of commodities, such as gold and oil, are priced in the reserve currency, causing other countries to hold this currency to pay for these goods.
Does Bitcoin have a chance?

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/reservecurrency.asp
Reserve currency is currency held by central banks and other major financial institutions as a means to pay off international debt obligations, or to influence their domestic exchange rate. A large percentage of commodities, such as gold and oil, are priced in the reserve currency, causing other countries to hold this currency to pay for these goods.

[botany]

Another one. They just keep popping up.

impulsive and reckless.. for writing a piece of code that checks for a condition that is supposed to never happen, and shut down rather then misbehave? Doesn't fit the bill, really. You might want to look up what an assertion is in code, it may give you a deeper understanding on what happened here.

http://www.coindesk.com/code-bug-exploit-bitcoin-unlimited-nodes/
Comment by Jonathan Silverblood (CashInBitcoinOut)

impulsive and reckless.. for writing a piece of code that checks for a condition that is supposed to never happen, and shut down rather then misbehave? Doesn't fit the bill, really.

You might want to look up what an assertion is in code, it may give you a deeper understanding on what happened here.

You also might want to look at the node count for the implementations, which will tell you that this "issue", is a non-issue really.

[botany]

What if someone edit post to look like someone c/p post or is using bot?

You can always find the last edited time of a post. So trying to frame somebody using that method wouldn't work.
I doubt if anybody has even tried that so far.

[botany]

A user who wants his view heard, and he doesn't care which thread he posts it in. 

That's great after all this invention is the evolution of fiat currency. If only bitcoin would be adopted by countries and merchant around the globe then we could have a global celebration for this fascinating crypto currency.
But i think the community and the current users of bitcoin is actually enough to commemorate Bitcoin we dont need to start externally why not from within?

We could do it, but at the same time do we need to? What I mean most of the people here in the forum are people that are very aware of bitcoin and what it means for the future, so it is not like we need a celebration to remind us of the great potential of bitcoin.

Next stop: MOON 

We could do it, but at the same time do we need to? What I mean most of the people here in the forum are people that are very aware of bitcoin and what it means for the future, so it is not like we need a celebration to remind us of the great potential of bitcoin.

[botany]

Another one, combining 2 posts (spelling mistakes et al.)

The original

If you invest money in any site, you should keep on track your investment not in a daily basis at least 3 to 4 days you have to check. Becasue the site's performance are not always same, the profit giving sites will run in loss sometimes. In that time if it continues long term we have to move our funds to another reputed sites these are the problems we face in investment. 

based on my personal experience investing in gambling site always make your heart beat , you know why? it is because there always ann unexpected winning from players that causing the investors money get dropped to negative.

it is like how the real gambling work , you will hard to divest your money , you will always want more.

And the imitator 

Probably I can say this must be a very useful topic regarding investments into gambling sites,you should keep on track your investment not in a daily basis at least 3 to 4 days you have to check. Becasue the site's performance are not always same, the profit giving sites will run in loss sometimes.
and by my experience investing in gambling site always make your heart beat , you know why? it is because there always ann unexpected winning from players that causing the investors money get dropped to negative

[hilariousandco]

Banned. Thanks.

[botany]

A user who wants his view heard, and he doesn't care which thread he posts it in. 

That's great after all this invention is the evolution of fiat currency. If only bitcoin would be adopted by countries and merchant around the globe then we could have a global celebration for this fascinating crypto currency.
But i think the community and the current users of bitcoin is actually enough to commemorate Bitcoin we dont need to start externally why not from within?

We could do it, but at the same time do we need to? What I mean most of the people here in the forum are people that are very aware of bitcoin and what it means for the future, so it is not like we need a celebration to remind us of the great potential of bitcoin.

Next stop: MOON 

We could do it, but at the same time do we need to? What I mean most of the people here in the forum are people that are very aware of bitcoin and what it means for the future, so it is not like we need a celebration to remind us of the great potential of bitcoin.

Just curious. Not even a temp ban on a user who copy-pasted his own post? The user is still active and posting.
Others seem to be getting perma-banned for copy pasting.

[marlboroza]

copy/paste

Yes in gambling ofcourse we need strategy. Strategy is a method or plan chosen to bring about a desired future, such as achievement of a goal or solution to a problem.
The art and science of planning and marshalling resources for their most efficient and effective use. The term is derived from the Greek word for generalship or leading an army. See also tactics.
 

http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/strategy.html

1. A method or plan chosen to bring about a desired future, such as achievement of a goal or solution to a problem.
2. The art and science of planning and marshalling resources for their most efficient and effective use. The term is derived from the Greek word for generalship or leading an army. See also tactics.

See also tactics.

[deisik]

Just curious. Not even a temp ban on a user who copy-pasted his own post? The user is still active and posting.
Others seem to be getting perma-banned for copy pasting

That seems to be something not covered by the rules

I mean copy-pasting one's own posts, though it shouldn't be welcomed of course. Obviously, a mod should decide on their own what to do in such cases (as the rules explicitly state). Since the forum paradigm looks like using the ban-hammer as rarely as possible (which I totally agree with), I think that a simple warning would suffice (at least, for the first time). I guess this is what has been done in this case. As an aside, don't get too blood-thirsty (remember, karma is a bitch)

[botany]

Just curious. Not even a temp ban on a user who copy-pasted his own post? The user is still active and posting.
Others seem to be getting perma-banned for copy pasting

That seems to be something not covered by the rules

I mean copy-pasting one's own posts, though it shouldn't be welcomed of course. Obviously, a mod should decide on their own what to do in such cases (as the rules explicitly state). Since the forum paradigm looks like using the ban-hammer as rarely as possible (which I totally agree with), I think that a simple warning would suffice (at least, for the first time). I guess this is what has been done in this case. As an aside, don't get too blood-thirsty (remember, karma is a bitch)

In this case, the copy-pasting seems to be more of a one-off example, plus he has copied his own post. That maybe the reason why there is no ban.
Agree with Karma being a bitch. 

[hilariousandco]

Those sorts will be taken on a case by case basis. I don't think copying your own post is that bad just as long as it is still relevant and a user wasn't doing it en mass or making a habit of it etc. You can't plagiarise your own content after all so a warning would be more appropriate than a ban in this case.

[K128kevin2]

I am not really sure if this is a very smart bot, or just a lazy man copying others' posts. Whichever case it is, it is against the forum rules.

To be honest it wouldn't take a very smart bot. You could build a markov chain on a ton of posts from the site and it'd spit out posts that made sense.

[deisik]

Just curious. Not even a temp ban on a user who copy-pasted his own post? The user is still active and posting.
Others seem to be getting perma-banned for copy pasting

That seems to be something not covered by the rules

I mean copy-pasting one's own posts, though it shouldn't be welcomed of course. Obviously, a mod should decide on their own what to do in such cases (as the rules explicitly state). Since the forum paradigm looks like using the ban-hammer as rarely as possible (which I totally agree with), I think that a simple warning would suffice (at least, for the first time). I guess this is what has been done in this case. As an aside, don't get too blood-thirsty (remember, karma is a bitch)

In this case, the copy-pasting seems to be more of a one-off example, plus he has copied his own post. That maybe the reason why there is no ban.
Agree with Karma being a bitch. 

Bans should be given out with reservations

Otherwise, they will quickly get devalued and people start moving to other places where the price for a ban is higher. You should do something really great to get a ban (let alone a permaban). That's why members looking and striving for power should never be made moderators in the first place since they will heavily abuse their moderator's position (too many bans for too little effort) and severely damage the forum reputation as well (i.e. as a place where different opinions are welcomed)

I am not really sure if this is a very smart bot, or just a lazy man copying others' posts. Whichever case it is, it is against the forum rules.

To be honest it wouldn't take a very smart bot. You could build a markov chain on a ton of posts from the site and it'd spit out posts that made sense.

Talk is cheap, show us the code

[K128kevin2]

Talk is cheap, show us the code

Sure thing. These things are really old, people used them to spam newsgroups and stuff, so they're easy enough to find on the internet.

I made a really small corpus from a few posts from the last couple of pages from this thread and got this:

Wise, they will quickly get devalued and people cant spam anymore.

Suffice at least theyre not being too lazy well thats why members looking and striving for power should do something similar by changing a word

If the spammers to a moderators position too many bans for too little effort and severely damage the forum reputation as well

He is modifying your own posts above?

Here's the code I used, it was on the first page of Google

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env python2
import random
import re

FORBIDDEN = '[]()"\''
TRUNC = re.compile('([!?.]+).*')

class Markov:
    def __init__(self, data=None, order=3):
        self.chains = {}
        self.order = order
        if data:
            self.add(data)

    def add(self, data):
        data = ' '.join(data.lower().split())
        for x in FORBIDDEN:
            data = data.replace(x, '')
        for i in range(len(data)):
            key = data[i:i+self.order-1]
            val = data[i+self.order-1:i+self.order]
            if key not in self.chains:
                self.chains[key] = []
            self.chains[key].append(val)
        return self

    def generate(self, max_length=140):
        try:
            current = random.choice(self.chains.keys())
            length = 0
            generated = []
            while length < max_length:
                last = current
                current = random.choice(self.chains.get(last, ['']))
                generated.append(current)
                length += len(current)
                if any([x in current for x in '!.?']) or not current:
                    break
                current = (last + current)[1:]
            return TRUNC.sub(
                lambda m: m.group(1),
                ''.join(generated).strip().title().capitalize()
            )
        except:
            return ''

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import sys
    print Markov(
        unicode(sys.stdin.read(), 'utf-8'),
        order=int(sys.argv[1])
    ).generate()

[deisik]

Talk is cheap, show us the code

Sure thing. These things are really old, people used them to spam newsgroups and stuff, so they're easy enough to find on the internet.

I made a really small corpus from a few posts from the last couple of pages from this thread and got this:

Wise, they will quickly get devalued and people cant spam anymore.

Suffice at least theyre not being too lazy well thats why members looking and striving for power should do something similar by changing a word

If the spammers to a moderators position too many bans for too little effort and severely damage the forum reputation as well

He is modifying your own posts above?

Here's the code I used, it was on the first page of Google

Well, it seems that this bot feels particularly interested in my posts specifically

Though I can't really say that they make a lot of sense (I don't mean my posts, of course). In the very least, they are still looking bizarre and somewhat out of place, more like Google Translate results. I guess you would fare a lot better if you just used it directly and translated posts from one section of the forum (or a completely different forum, to evade the ban hammer for longer) and post them in the appropriate thread which roughly matches the topic where you pull them from. Google Translate seems to be well tolerated here, though it is obviously not a substitute for stupidity and ignorance

[botany]

Bans should be given out with reservations

Otherwise, they will quickly get devalued and people start moving to other places where the price for a ban is higher. You should do something really great to get a ban (let alone a permaban). That's why members looking and striving for power should never be made moderators in the first place since they will heavily abuse their moderator's position (too many bans for too little effort) and severely damage the forum reputation as well (i.e. as a place where different opinions are welcomed)

I don't think so. Bans are not given out for having a different opinion. They are given out only for spamming and that is linked to paid signatures.
A stricter policy might result in more serious members staying, where as the others might leave. Not a bad outcome.

[deisik]

Bans should be given out with reservations

Otherwise, they will quickly get devalued and people start moving to other places where the price for a ban is higher. You should do something really great to get a ban (let alone a permaban). That's why members looking and striving for power should never be made moderators in the first place since they will heavily abuse their moderator's position (too many bans for too little effort) and severely damage the forum reputation as well (i.e. as a place where different opinions are welcomed)

I don't think so. Bans are not given out for having a different opinion. They are given out only for spamming and that is linked to paid signatures.
A stricter policy might result in more serious members staying, where as the others might leave. Not a bad outcome

As to me, this doesn't look plausible

Why should "more serious members" stay if they see the ban-hammer hitting all over the place? If by "more serious members" you mean more knowledgeable ones, I don't see any such relationship or dependence, I mean between them staying here and stricter policies. Personally, I expect quite the opposite, i.e. such policies would actually revert them from the forum since more knowledgeable people are almost always more tolerant to spamming than to excessive moderation, being mostly of libertarian attitude themselves. I don't like spam and useless posts either but authoritarian and draconian moderation policies I like even less

[spngebob]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1850748.msg18414491#msg18414491
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=319540.msg18415134#msg18415134
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=319540.msg18422702#msg18422702
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=319540.msg18428418#msg18428418
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=319540.msg18435067#msg18435067
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1850855.msg18428991#msg18428991
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1850855.msg18437332#msg18437332
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1850855.msg18442609#msg18442609
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1850855.msg18443227#msg18443227
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1850855.msg18443297#msg18443297
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1850855.msg18443499#msg18443499
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1850855.msg18443915#msg18443915
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1850855.msg18443436#msg18443436
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1850855.msg18449042#msg18449042
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1850855.msg18449042#msg18449042
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1850855.msg18465481#msg18465481

Bunch of newbie accounts created to post 20$ winning...looks like bot to me.
Some posts are repeated 2-5 times in one day.