The Community Feels.... censorship from the shadows is needed

Or punching numbers into a box that gives you volts to 9 places when the read was with a 10-bit ADC, and believing it!

Since this discussion also touches on the future role of AI in learning and technical communities, the results and evaluation of the recent forum poll may be relevant here:

What do the people who actually manage this forum (maybe Qualcomm now) want to accomplish? Possibly they see AI as an even better solution for supporting their products than a cadre of volunteers that work for free but have to be managed.

The thing I want to accomplish is providing a platform for humans to learn about and share knowledge of subjects related to embedded systems.

I of course answer to my own management chain, and I wouldn't presume to speculate here regarding their aspirations.

A noble goal and I for one appreciate your hard work.

Their aspirations are, after all, what count in the end.

There seems many posts directed at bots being deleted, or flags indicating their botness dismissed. At first, reply posts are removed, then reply posts are informed to "not assume it's a bot" and the next moment the bot has a "user suspended" avatar. Measure twice, cut once? There is no "assumption." Humans seem to spot inhuman activity without undergoing CBT. Bots can produce "nothing harmless" faster than (many) humans can react.

This "Defense of the Planet of the Bots" seems to enable bot accounts to train with human interaction at different levels, from "give me codes" to "you are ignorant on this subject and must go."

It also seems writing in the passive voice is ridiculous... or rather... counterproductive, as it just makes word salad of a point, now lost in the indirectness. Saying "the king has no clothes" is a means to a solution, taught long before the slide rule. It follows the line, "be kind to bots and they will be kind to you," hahha... that's just the bot scraping and regurgitating the voice used... and the believers in the "kindness" gigo seem to defend the defense of bot slop.

Here's the thing... change from passive voice to active voice, and all-heck-breaks-loose and the "Post #" stop matching the Post#/OfPost#s.

Bot accounts must go, with high disregard, and not allowed to train on the forum. Desiring and defending "traffic" - even when identified - over human interaction is yet another domino to fall. It's the same struggle the Slide Rule had with the calculator, the latter of which did not solve problems faster, it made people stupider.

Make Fora for Humans Again.

I already addressed everything you wrote in my previous replies. I suggest you read them.

Since you did not chose the active voice, giving me a choice (and I do realize you can read as I type/edit/retype), imma go with "just following orders" regarding the numerous notifications of "its-a-bot" posts being yanked.

You are neither the first, nor the last.

I've been around "bots" since training them to recognize more than OCR fonts. They haven't become any smarter, only faster, and I have only become half-fast, yet I "find" the moron agents all the time, not just one time. Flagging a post versus replying to the post only keeps the Post# vs #ofPosts equal. It might not shut down a topic, but who cares if "just one user" gets shut down. "Noise" IS "Malicious." Bots create noise by starting, engaging in and perpetuating "bland" or "stupid" blather. In fact, Humans ARE perfect. Humans CAN spot inhuman activity. That's how we got to this point of "talking" (civilly?) across the world in milliseconds from clubbing "stupid" behaviour... if the clubbing didn't happen, neither would "this." To use the active voice "stupid" is "bot." (this paragraph is an example of human scraping, that took some time [25 minutes] for a human, but instantaneous for a bot).

Long live the Slide Rule. Long live Human Fora.

Paraphrasing from the Prime Directive for middle management:

"General Order 24:
Eliminate toxicity... at all costs."
then
"Don't offend the guests on the off chance that they didn't buy a clone."

If you believe a post is in violation of the rules, flag it.

If you harm our community by derailing topics with replies accusing users of being "bots", expect that I will delete these replies and take disciplinary action.

You have been warned.

@xfpd
Is that "active" enough for you? :grinning_face:

Often.

Yes. That is how we are meant to converse. Leave poetry for robots.

You may see it, but I feel the need to spell it out: I am saying the same thing about bots. Look what "it" have caused. Humans arguing for/against bots (resulting in "for/against community" threats), even while I'm on "your" side. My "Animal Farm of the Bots" prophecy will come to this forum because "protecting the community" was not directed at the problem, veiled in "protecting the individual." I'm not looking at chopping anyone who doesn't format code in a code block. It's bot noise that is the problem, the cause and pending doom. I believe a Forum statistic was mentioned that 85% of Forum accounts are "zero activity" place holders - a safe place to wait for the semaphore (and reserve all swear-word permutations). When a system fails, it does not fail for an individual, it fails. I think the Forum was doing great without vapid bot posts. I'm not the first to see and comment about bot posts. Palendromatically: Stop bots.

When AI voice tries to read the news or much else I can tell how well it "thinks" which isn't well at all. They don't follow content, just repeat it.

or if anyone Flags your objection to copy-paste bottified drivel spamming a thread where you don't Flag them, They FLAG You.

Not bots (can't prove) but bot fishing trolls become "the community".

BTW bottified is my new word for AI En$#!+ification.