EnronHaliburton2004's Journal: Trollbot(?) sightings - Random Citibank/UPS responses

Anyone else notice the ton of random AC reponses to the last few submissions? Probably 50% of the articles are way offtopic--- talking about Citibank or UPS instead of Japanese Geek Underground.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/07/1622203&tid=99

Interesting new Trollbot?

Most of the responses seem to focus on financial or privacy issues with the recent UPS/Citibank issue. I wonder if some trollbot is simply copying the the responses from an old response and pasting it into the response form.

Or perhaps it's not a trollbot, and the Database is screwed up.

I'm thinking it's database problem

[WillAffleckUW]

because I've noticed some wonky problems when posting, especially near first post.

so probably not a TrollBot per se, but one can never tell ...

Re:I'm thinking it's database problem

[nizo]

It must be loads of fun as a site administrator trying to figure out if it is a code problem or a trollbot.

Re:I'm thinking it's database problem

[BandwidthHog]

If it's not a trollbot, it's a hell of a coincidence, as I know people who have recently been playing with scripts that do exactly that.

There are certainly some other database issues going on lately though, maybe they're a hamfisted response to said trollbot?