Continuing the discussion from SBK_BarDrive – LED bargraph driver and non-blocking animation queue:
Ok what's going on with all those AI generated comments with no real opinion or useful information ! What's the point and who's doing this, it's a waste of power, time, etc.
Flag them. I did/do. I posted about their increasing frequency and growing volume, but my posts get taken down due to "how I say things." Some say bots have feelings.
Hi @sbarabe. I split this tangential post out to a dedicated topic to allow us to freely discuss the important subject without derailing the topic about your nice library.
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I was suspicions about 2 answers that were literal remake of my original post with some polished flattery that didn't bring nothing. They seem suspicious because who write answers that long to say nothing...
Anyway they were both caught by moderators before I could flag them.
Thanks for the feedback and have a nice day.
But you and I can tell the difference between me making a grammatical mistake after copy/pasting my thought-fragments and a bot faking a language impediment and the innocence of a human using a translator.
You will have bot-runaway without strong anti-bot action, to include "human" tricks like banks use to verify you are not a bot, just to obtain an account. I ran a bulletin board that I had to briefly shut down due to runaway bot accounts (thousands was a lot for this little site), write to the author and wait for the next security upgrade.
I understand Admin is always in catch up mode, even with all your security efforts. Been there.