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[kippurbird]

Um... anyone know what this would be about?

Guy, I think, IM'd me.

OpenedSalmon: I'm from the Internet. I'm here to help.

Kippurbirdy: All right.

OpenedSalmon: Are you a bot? You strike me as a Jabberwacky clone.

Kippurbirdy: Umm....

OpenedSalmon: Guess not. Who are you?

Kippurbirdy: I'm Kippur, who are you?

OpenedSalmon: Don't IM people you don't know.

Kippurbirdy: I didn't IM you.

OpenedSalmon: Now you're aggravating me.

Kippurbirdy: I'm sorry. But I didn't.

OpenedSalmon: It's sort of pointless to argue with you.

OpenedSalmon: Toodles.

Kippurbirdy: Bye.


This is like the second time something like this has happened where someone IM's me and says that I've IM'd them. Any idea what that's about?

Comments

[eddiesteddy4711.livejournal.com]

Any AIM sn with the suffix "Salmon" is a sort of half-bot. I forget how it works exactly, but the best thing to do is just block any sn that ends in "Salmon".

I got one of those messages once from an OverlordSalmon. They're annoying, pointless, and really not very advanced bots at all.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Hah. So I'm learning.

[amamelina.livejournal.com]

I think that was a bot. Or a real psycho idiot. Or a psycho idiot bot.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

I like the last one.

[notadoor.livejournal.com]

http://community.livejournal.com/themissinghat/286.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheGreatHatsby
http://community.livejournal.com/themissinghat/


I think a few of them are bots, but most of them are simply a mask with a real person on the other end, just as confused as you.

[subieko.livejournal.com]

I have no idea, but "I'm from the internet. I'm here to help." is the best. Line. EVER. Seriously. That needs an icon.

On a more helpful note, that (the internet thing) doesn't sound like something anyone might feasibly say in an IM conversation with a stranger. Or ever, really. But how many bots just randomly contact people and then leave again? What would be the point?

Maybe it's just some really whacked out guy. *shrugs*

[silentvoice29.livejournal.com]

OH OH OH OH

I know those bots.

What it is that the bot connects two, unrelated people, says one obscure line, and then doesn't do anything else. It makes it look like the other person said the line. In other words, you saw him say "I'm from the internet. I'm here to help," but he saw you say the same thing. After that, nature takes its course.

[christinaathena.livejournal.com]

Hunh. What an interesting prank. Do these bots somehow monitor the chat that ensues?

[silentvoice29.livejournal.com]

Not sure! There's a whole LJ community dedicated to this, though:
http://community.livejournal.com/themissinghat/

[dragonlet.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure the same thing happened to me recently, and I told you about it. Except there wasn't a 'salmon' involved.

The really annoying thing is how rude people get when you're trying to say "I'm sorry, I think this is a misunderstanding."

[(Anonymous)]

Never had that one, but on YIM (I think it stopped when I started using Trillian), I used to get bots that pretended to be girls looking for cybersex.

After the first couple, I realised that they always said the same things. Every single time. Something like:

Bot: Hello, anyone there?
Bot: Guess not.
And then, if I responded...
Bot: Oh, there you are.
Bot: a/s/l?

After a while, I used to give a/s/l as things like 452/goxmale/the fourth ring of saturn. Not that it mattered, cuz it would then go on to give me the same story about how they'd been watching tv and it got them all aroused, and so on...

Eh, eventually I got tired of it and just put them on ignore as soon as I realised it was another one.