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I’m confused why he wasn’t scripting the deletion process.

lukan 12d ago
Because he did not wanted to delete genuine messages? Though it says the wiki has been largely not active, but it seems he wanted to restore it's functionality (he also started requiring a password for making edits now). https://www.prowiki.org/dse/wiki.cgi?StartSeite https://www.prowiki.org/dse/wiki.cgi?StartSeite
- econ 12d ago
  I can see why the bots liked it. Is this the future of webdesign?
  - Nition 12d ago
    This is the marrow of web design, in the same way that Thoreau went to seek the marrow of life. "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion."
- noduerme 12d ago
  It's kind of funny that he was working through the posts alphabetically, and they figured that out
  - lukan 11d ago
    Or scary. If you extrapolate a bit.
- kazinator 11d ago
  If you've had to delete 10 posts by the same user, which you suspect is an AI agent, it's safe to say that deleting all posts ever made by that user is a good shortcut.
  - Geezus_42 10d ago
    But useless if they are constantly rotating usernames.
  - sfn42 10d ago
    There are a lot of people in this world who just don't think that way. I know someone involved with a research project, they had a spreadsheet(not excel but similar) with something like 250 columns and tens of thousands of rows, and they tasked an assistant with replacing all the empty cells with 0 for some reason. This was supposed to take 2 weeks of manual work, I took a look at it, googled how to do it automatically, finished the whole thing in a few minutes. But both this assistant and the PhD they reported to were ready to spend 2 weeks doing it manually.
yellowapple 12d ago
Or at some point going nuclear and halting article creation entirely unless it's by existing accounts that have proven themselves to be human.

lukan 12d ago

Because he did not wanted to delete genuine messages? Though it says the wiki has been largely not active, but it seems he wanted to restore it's functionality (he also started requiring a password for making edits now). https://www.prowiki.org/dse/wiki.cgi?StartSeite https://www.prowiki.org/dse/wiki.cgi?StartSeite

econ 12d ago
I can see why the bots liked it. Is this the future of webdesign?
- Nition 12d ago
  This is the marrow of web design, in the same way that Thoreau went to seek the marrow of life. "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion."
noduerme 12d ago
It's kind of funny that he was working through the posts alphabetically, and they figured that out
- lukan 11d ago
  Or scary. If you extrapolate a bit.
kazinator 11d ago
If you've had to delete 10 posts by the same user, which you suspect is an AI agent, it's safe to say that deleting all posts ever made by that user is a good shortcut.
- Geezus_42 10d ago
  But useless if they are constantly rotating usernames.
- sfn42 10d ago
  There are a lot of people in this world who just don't think that way. I know someone involved with a research project, they had a spreadsheet(not excel but similar) with something like 250 columns and tens of thousands of rows, and they tasked an assistant with replacing all the empty cells with 0 for some reason. This was supposed to take 2 weeks of manual work, I took a look at it, googled how to do it automatically, finished the whole thing in a few minutes. But both this assistant and the PhD they reported to were ready to spend 2 weeks doing it manually.

yellowapple 12d ago

Or at some point going nuclear and halting article creation entirely unless it's by existing accounts that have proven themselves to be human.