I am all for free speech and everything, but why is this account, which is clearly a bot, not being deleted? This is a debate forum...bots are not capable of debate, so I dont see why they are tolerated.

His posts are being locked, which is good. But why is the text not being deleted and the account disabled? Seems to me that would be more effective in discouraging bots.

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Never heard of a BOT. What is that?

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Hi, I like communications. I like intelligent and amusing people. We might disagree, but that's okay. Just don't be boring.

It's short for robot. The DONNAF postings are not from a human but from a spam-generator.

Thanks. I had NO idea!

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Hi, I like communications. I like intelligent and amusing people. We might disagree, but that's okay. Just don't be boring.

It is really annoying. Thats why when you register an account they sometimes make you type in a series of letters and numbers from a distorted picture...because bots cant read it.

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Freedom of speech or something similar to that (that links to white supremacist sites) is also a bot.

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I'm pretty sure freedom-of-speech has replied to a couple of threads. What does that make him??

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Recent evidence seems to support that DonnaF and Freedom-of-Speech are not bots, but egocentricists that post large numbers of threads, mostly exceprts from their blogs and don't usually bother seeing what's going on in those threads because they can't handle disagreement (oh I'm sorry- they can't handle arguing with those of us who are too stupid to agree).
But they have responded, I guess, though rarely.
Perhaps they're cyborgs.

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And I do not need to know.

Thats pretty bad if Sadistic is calling for the elimination of a conservative. When dying wolves eat their own kind, I guess the same goes for political movements.

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I think it's pretty good that a winger is calling for the elimination of an element with whom he agrees that threatens the integrity of this posting site.