Journal droid_rage's Journal: SlashBots! 2
So I've had this plan brewing for a while.
I intend to write a bot to post to slashdot. This bot will use regular expression filtering to look at the post and try to ascertain what it means. Possibly it will use the categories to decide how to respond. It will also process the article linked in the post. I'll try to make sure it gets the correct link by telling it to ignore sendto:'s and links to just the home directory of a site, unless that's the only link provided for that site.
Now, the bot will not actually post any original messages. It will only respond to messages rated +2 or better or messages asking something like "But how fast is it?" or "Does anybody have a picture of this guy?" which will be processed from the article and posted with a "RTFA" appended to the message line, or search google for the specific question, process the resulting page and post a "I found this here" message. It will also keep a cached copy of the page to post in text format should the page get slashdotted.
The real problem will be to make it "self-learning". Maybe it will look at short, highly moderated responses to other posts, and restate those posts in some way when a similar question is asked, but I'm not sure how I'll pull that off. It would be tricky to categorize it correctly.
Now, it will require some doing, and I'll have to make sure it only posts once every 10 minutes or so, or once every few minutes, but only at certain times of the day, to look as much like a real poster as possible. Who knows, it might even improve the signal-to-noise ratio I'm always bitching about. I'll be curious to see how quickly it either gets to Totally Excellent Karma, or gets modded down to oblivion.
I intend to write a bot to post to slashdot. This bot will use regular expression filtering to look at the post and try to ascertain what it means. Possibly it will use the categories to decide how to respond. It will also process the article linked in the post. I'll try to make sure it gets the correct link by telling it to ignore sendto:'s and links to just the home directory of a site, unless that's the only link provided for that site.
Now, the bot will not actually post any original messages. It will only respond to messages rated +2 or better or messages asking something like "But how fast is it?" or "Does anybody have a picture of this guy?" which will be processed from the article and posted with a "RTFA" appended to the message line, or search google for the specific question, process the resulting page and post a "I found this here" message. It will also keep a cached copy of the page to post in text format should the page get slashdotted.
The real problem will be to make it "self-learning". Maybe it will look at short, highly moderated responses to other posts, and restate those posts in some way when a similar question is asked, but I'm not sure how I'll pull that off. It would be tricky to categorize it correctly.
Now, it will require some doing, and I'll have to make sure it only posts once every 10 minutes or so, or once every few minutes, but only at certain times of the day, to look as much like a real poster as possible. Who knows, it might even improve the signal-to-noise ratio I'm always bitching about. I'll be curious to see how quickly it either gets to Totally Excellent Karma, or gets modded down to oblivion.
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