Quote from: suchmoon on June 01, 2019, 11:41:57 PM

Quote from: Quickseller on June 01, 2019, 10:27:53 PM

"confession"

Brilliant detective work, Quicksy. May I suggest investigating bears and popes next.

I literally have "snitch" under my avatar, speaking of which - I was wearing Stitch for months. I actually explained to you personally how I look for plagiarism when you decided to lie about it, which happens a lot for some reason. Early onset Alzheimer's or just trying to save your account farm by attacking people who're cleaning up the forum from garbage like you?

The bot is likely a myth though. I doubt there is anyone running an actual bot (autonomous software) to find and report posts. I report a shitload of posts - on a good month probably in double digits as a percentage of all reports - and I still manually review and report every single post. Just using some software tools more tailored to the task than a simple Google search.

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I found it weird that you were dancing around the subject of you actually running a bot, expect for the sarcastic comment at the end of your post.....until I remembered this:

Quote from: suchmoon on May 17, 2019, 07:11:57 PM

I'm involved in what could be considered a service to the community and there are some expenses (details available to serious bidders on request). I've been footing those bills on my own for the last ~year but my SO got a hold of the last one... long story short, that's no longer a viable option Wink

Neither of the posts explicitly say if you are presently running a bot, and the post in which you sell your avatar doesn't explicitly say what the money will be used for, leaving open the possibility that either you could be using the money to finance the cost of the bot, and to reimburse your family the previous cost of the bot. No big deal, there isn't any reason to be forced to disclose what money that is legitimately obtained is going to be used for.

No one cares if the person reporting the posts actually looks at the reports before submitting them, the end result is still the same. Frankly, so long as any bot used uses sufficient logic to weed out common phrases that would not be plagiarism, there shouldn't be any concerns with automatically reporting posts. Although based on who I believe is most likely to have created the bot, I have my doubts the person's junk science would allow him to sufficiently weed out these false positives.

Back on track, I think it is pretty clear you are still using the bot, and I think you are expending your own money to pay for these expenses. I also think you are probably not explicitly lying, but are making statements that you believe will lead your SO to believe you are *not* any longer paying these expenses yourself (and that he actually believes this). In some regards, this kind of deception to a SO, or someone you have a close personal relationship with is worse than explicitly lying because it leaves open the possibility to deny being deceptive when caught and confronted (and asked if you were previously lying).

I am not sure if you paid, or are paying, or were but no longer are paying the person who I believe to have created the bot. I believe him to be a scammer, troll, and a spammer, and not one to care about others enough to want to make this kind of tool for free. On the other hand, he has a history of smearing anyone who calls out his shady behavior, and holds a grudge, so I can't rule this person out from being willing to create a tool to use his junk science to further grind on his ax so to speak, that eventually got repurposed and/or modified to catch people plagiarizing.

Knowing my observations of your behavior on the forum, and who I know you align with, I am not surprised to see deception on your part.