Public Salmon Notice
Monday, May 5th, 2008 12:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flwydI got an AIM message from cubedsalmon right after making my last post. The content of the message from this fishy user was ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
themissinghat, a community devoted to this and similar AIM bot pranks.
So if you ever get a message from a user with "salmon" in the name, be prepared for a confused LiveJournaler who doesn't know what's going on. Who knows, it could be fun! Here's another post on the same topic. And with nothing to do with chat bots, it's a good week to do The Salmon Dance.
I've occasionally thought about writing an AIM bot that you could send a quote to and it would respond with a random quote from another user. But in today's Internet I'd have to come up with an anti-spam solution as well and I haven't even gotten around to applying my spam knowledge to my own email.
The 100th Fibonacci number is 354224848179261915075.The next few messages exchanged established that the person on the other end hadn't started the conversation and didn't know me. An LJ post about a similar conversation was on the first page of Google results for 354224848179261915075. Adding salmon to the search turned up
themissinghat, a community devoted to this and similar AIM bot pranks.So if you ever get a message from a user with "salmon" in the name, be prepared for a confused LiveJournaler who doesn't know what's going on. Who knows, it could be fun! Here's another post on the same topic. And with nothing to do with chat bots, it's a good week to do The Salmon Dance.
I've occasionally thought about writing an AIM bot that you could send a quote to and it would respond with a random quote from another user. But in today's Internet I'd have to come up with an anti-spam solution as well and I haven't even gotten around to applying my spam knowledge to my own email.
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Date: 2008-06-19 05:29 pm (UTC)how odd.
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Date: 2008-07-05 08:06 am (UTC)it randomly pairs people together, that. like i got a message from salmon SquirmySalmon asking "do you douche" i was like.. WTFFF it turned out i had appeaered to him as Terrific Salmon and said the same thing. its a bot that randomly pairs two people, gives hem the same message, and thats it. You both appear as (an adjective)salmon. its annoying but there it is
these things keep evolving..
Date: 2008-11-14 04:44 pm (UTC)