SantaBarbara bot

[Loyly]

I was reading one of the other forums earlier and my interest was piqued by some posters discussing the user SantaBarbara, who appears to have been banned. There was some suggestion that this poster was actually a spambot.

I wen back through a few threads with posts from this user and noticed that the posts were mostly inane drivel and always a reaction to other posts, never appearing to volunteer any original thought.

Was this user a spambot, and if it was, how did it work? Was a rudimentary AI posting sentences to PH by using a rudimentary algorithm to 'read' other posts and send replies?

[Loyly]

SantaBarbara said:

Who was he replying to? That is the real question

This is the sort of nonsense I was talking about.