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From: rek2 hispagatos <rek2@hispagatos.org.invalid>
Newsgroups: news.groups,alt.cyberpunk,alt.2600.hackers
Subject: Re: Moral Dilemma
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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 13:36:03 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: Hispagatos
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On 2024-08-29, Angler <jolly@fisher.men> 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?


Well, as you can see in the groups you posted, there if there was before
any trolls, they are not any now, google groups is gone,(good) a lot of
trolls desisted and many new people. 
Do you want the new people to get annoyed and leave? or engange in 
good conversations? 


Happy Hacking
ReK2