Apogees in advance for the MethStar-esque girth of this post.
I shall attempt brevity & clarity; no doubt I will fail deliciously: my only Collegiate Level of English instruction was of the Engineering flavor.
I note, my Grade-High School English instruction was of the traditional Literature flavor; I have a second-hand anecdote that I may or may not choose to share from the the Renzulli/Montessori hybrid gifted program I was in during my grade to middle school years (
the program continued into High School, but my folks transferred me out of that district into a Jesuit College Preparatory High School, that didn't have such a "free-wheeling" nature. I digress)...
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I think we all quite N'Joyed that brief spastic side-trek into AssGrabbery and NutTappery my original nebulous idea provoked. Well done, evrahbody.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXfZVzqt_PsSo back to
The Idea™ that was inspired by Mr. Kyle Hill's original vidya:
As I recall, the discussion was aboot a recent board shutdown(?) due to bot accounts or something, and the observation was made that MethStar is a SpamBot.
I had happened to have recently viewed that K. Hill vidya; I found it amusing enough to share with the class as a proposal of how such a thing could be adapted to kill two birds with one stone, as it were.
Perhaps even three birds? We shall see; if nothing else: a Thought Experiment in the field of Computer Science (
which happens to be the current degree I am working on...).
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Here's the low down:
1. Bots (
of some flavor/type) are assaulting our beloved AssGrab.
2. MethStar continues to generate complete gobbledygook indistinguishable from a Markov Babbler's output.
3. Azz wastes his valuable time dealing with both.
#1 is pretty easy to deal with, if one has the storage space:
Insert a "nepenthes"-style Digital Tarpit somewhere on the AssGrab server. For the Markov Babble output used, one need only take the entirety of MethStar's posts and concatenate them together into a giant text file, to which Markov's AlGorethym can be applied to the
nth degree.
This would be relatively simple to implement at the server level using LINUX. For the "slow" database output that is fed to the bots in their Digital Tarpit, perhaps SQL would be the best code to use, as it is cumbersome and slow... Horrible language, but perhaps useful in this particular application.
Again, this will take up some of the precious AssGrab server time, but perhaps the
Juice is Worth the Squeeze?
#2 can be dealt with using that initial Markov .txt file; now we have this wonderful concept in LINUX of a "daemon": this is a sort of automated sub-routine that does tedious thyme-consuming tasks that don't really require that much of a thought process.
Probably, one would want to set up a virtual drive for all of this data management side of things, perhaps more than one? One dedicated to containing the entirety of MethStar's posts in a concatenated .txt file (
this will necessarily be massive and constantly growing in size). A virtual partition will allow the Admin to assign additional resources as space allows or requires, I address this a bit later on in this section.
MethStar will inevitably create the corner in which he will shit and consume his own ejaculate; he has several already: if one cares to peruse his post history.
My proposed "MethStar daemon" should be given an AssGrab account with which it can interact with "original" MethStar: this can be made as complex or simple as the site Admin deems appropriate for the server resources required.
This "MethStar daemon" will simply look for new (
fungible garbage) posts by the thing in question and reply to them.
We can use the bit of "nepenthes" code from #1 to accomplish this, only now it uses the MethStar post it is replying to as the prompts from which to generate the automated "daemon" response.
MethStar will probably not even notice, or his Meth-addled ego will be stroked so much by such "fellow traveler" ejaculate in his direction that he will be hopelessly unable to resist replying, in essence, to himself!
If the site Admin has the coding skillset required, this #2 "daemon" could be tweaked (
HAH!) to improve performance in its future interactions with the joke source material...
It could even be renamed should The Punchline become aware of The Joke; or a "daughter" bot account could be created to assist the original "daemon" in its efforts.
The recursivity of all of this could result in copious amounts of server space being consumed by absolute gibberish. IMHO it seems to be one of the aims of the Admin, hear? Nautical Shore.
No walls needed. Addicts create their own walls (
of unintelligible gibberish).
Were it
my site, I would do just such a thing for my own personal amusement... I'd probably purge the concatenated source .txt of earlier "original" MethStar posts (
to limit the size & attempt to keep things "fresh") in the implementation of this particular bit of associated code.
#3 I suppose, this isn't really solved: Now Azz has to waste his valuable time on #2 (
I assume that once #1 is up and running, it won't require much additional attention, IF properly coded...), but perhaps some of the more tedious elements of dealing with noxious #2 deposits can be automated? It might require a bit of prestidigitation and/or legerdemain to make it "real" enough to maintain the illusory sense of human interaction the thing in question demands. But perhaps it will make the constant thorn (
??spear??) in his side more delicous and tasty?
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I believe this is a deliciously evil enough of a starting point that, with some creativity, its application could be most delicious to watch.
Think of it: The Joke has been explained to the Punchline; one need only sit back and observe the mental anguish caused in what is left of the mind of our drug-addled object.
CrackStar, through Methamphetamine Zombification has abrogated any notion of self, humanity and/or sentience.
Now he/it/they/them is no more than a meth-fueled automata. A useless robot that consumes valuable resources. Time being chief among them, to say nothing of money or anything else: its and others' who are unfortunate enough to spend any on the thing.
Its abject self-abrogation of the above listed things, in my mind at least, frees anyone pondering the object's existence
vis-a-vis of consideration of the same.
Yes, a Digital Tarpit is probably inhumane (
I reiterate; my position on the need for humanity in this case is probably easily surmised), and perhaps an actual tarpit would be more appropriate?
I am reminded of insects from antiquity trapped in Amber for some reason. Who cries for the mosquito, or plague-carrying flea?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjtL9tcNF8gMeh, poor little feller...
