Industrial Spambots at Fort Fantasy Forum

FortFantasy Jul 11 '18

Finally, someone is asking the right questions!

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FortFantasy Jul 26 '18

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FortFantasy Jul 26 '18

Hey, the NBA is back!

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FortFantasy Jul 31 '18

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FortFantasy Aug 2 '18

So, one bot is selling NBA 2K19 and MLB The Show "coins" or whatever 2K is calling their in-game currency these days.

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FortFantasy Aug 6 '18

Like, it's badly translated Harry Potter, and they've clearly just swapped out a word or two for their spam phrase, and... that's kinda funny.

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FortFantasy Aug 9 '18

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FortFantasy Aug 17 '18

Isulize? Is-ulize? Wait.

It all makes sense now.

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FortFantasy Aug 17 '18

So, Maple Story may never start up another new server?

This is a weird one; the robots are clearly just copy/pasting words into existing English write-ups that are almost entirely random. I've no idea what game was suffering way back in 2015, but I feel for them that I only heard about their troubles now.

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FortFantasy Aug 17 '18

Oh, one last thing... RShop, your avatar...

Random spambots are the best spambots.

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FortFantasy Aug 21 '18

We have an "Industrial" bot again, this time a parts supplier from China, and, well, I think their work speaks for itself.

If you need ductwork corners, evidently these are the experts in their field.

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FortFantasy Aug 23 '18

Woah, I was just saying the other day- man, I could really use a whatever the hell this is supposed to be! What a lucky coincidence it landed right here at the Fortress!

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FortFantasy Aug 23 '18

This seems almost coherent, like an actual firm put this writeup together, then fed it to the bots to get the word out. Interesting...

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FortFantasy Aug 30 '18

Madden coins! Get your Madden coins here!

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FortFantasy Aug 30 '18

Our good friend RShop has some Runscape gold and Maple Story coins to sell us. Oh goody!

My favorite line here is about the "Purple Senior" collection. What the hell are these bots on about?

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FortFantasy Aug 30 '18

Now, this is a subsection for INDUSTRIAL spam bots. What is more INDUSTRIAL than a massive machine intended for a Rice Processing Factory? Not much that I can think of- I'll let Lainggong take it away!

So, what we have here are pretty concise instructions on how to take care of your Rice Destoner, a machine that literally removes rocks and stones from freshly harvested rice. To show you what that looks like, here's a common example.

Or a somewhat larger "assembly line" style machine like this one. They all look like either this one or the previous one.

Now, what exactly has led these robots to think that anyone here on the Fortress would ever want or need a massive machine for processing rice, I do not know. All I will say on it though is, keep em' coming China!

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FortFantasy Aug 30 '18

Okay, so RShop left one last post, titled "What do I do now?" which is a pretty normal copy-pasta article. Nothing too wild there.

But, I thought this one was distinct enough that maybe I might be able to find who the bots stole it from. So, I hopped over to Bing to see what Bing could find, and... well...