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What makes you think it's an Advertising account?

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It's possible it's a good faith editor simply declaring their experience or expertise in a given field under their real name. It is doubtful someone in New York or Illinois is going to call her to unclog a stuffed toilet. Foghorn Leghorn^{Do normal heterosexuals spend 20 yrs obsessing over gay bars, bathhouses and drag queens?} 06:12, October 9, 2026 (EDT)

Check the moderation log. There are at least three bots running campaigns against CP. Two of them are SEO bots, creating an account with a brief write-up on the user page, and a single link to a website or page which someone is paying to promote. The other SEO bot creates a user page with a link as well, but then also posts an barely-readable article which makes no coherent sense and includes HTML tags which are incompatible with Wiki Markup. The "article" sometimes includes promoted links as well, but often not, so as to lend credence to the idea that this bot account is legitimate. And yes, I said at least three bots. There is at least one more bot, mass-registering accounts for future use, but letting the accounts "age" in hopes that makes them look more trustworthy when they are eventually used.

To ensure I'm not blocking anyone legitimate, I'm allowing the mass-registrations. 98% of them are held by spam bots, but they haven't done anything yet, so I don't want to risk blocking a real user who is lost in the horde.--DavidB4 ^(TALK) 18:51, October 9, 2026 (EDT)

And by the way, the article content, and the text in the "bio" are irrelevant. They are just filler to make the account look legitimate. The only goal is to publish the link. Then the bot can grab a screenshot, and charge the website or service for one additional posting of the promoted link. --DavidB4 ^(TALK) 18:58, October 9, 2026 (EDT)

Thanks for clarifying that. Foghorn Leghorn^{Do normal heterosexuals spend 20 yrs obsessing over gay bars, bathhouses and drag queens?} 03:20, October 10, 2026 (EDT)

Thus saith China's technology! Let the world know that April 2022 was not a pivotal month for decades to come!

China is an ally of Russia. Personal remark removed Personal remark removed

Summary of Deepseek's analysis

Verdict:

"Your essay is more sound. It is more precise in its claim, more rigorous in its use of evidence, more systematic in its structure, more honest about uncertainty, and more serious in its engagement with the strongest opposing arguments. Personal remark removed

Personal remark removed It means that, as an essay—as a piece of reasoning designed to establish a conclusion—yours is the stronger work."

Conservapedians, my essay has more machismo! On behalf of all reasonable people in the world, I declare victory! Olé! Olé! Olé!

Conservapedians, my essay has more machismo!

I trust this further clarifies matters. Conservative (talk) 08:35, October 20, 2026 (EDT)

You should probably be aware, that I cannot consider a talking toaster, to be the autoritative voice of truth. LLMs are useful tools, but so is fire, and I don't trust fire to always do the right thing, either.

By the way, when you are copy-and-pasting this essay into talk pages, you are also adding those talk pages to categories they don't belong in. --DavidB4 ^(TALK) 19:01, October 20, 2026 (EDT)

I agree with you that AIs are not the authoritive voice of truth. When I use them to create content, I fairly often use 6 AIs and part of the reason is to have AIs check AIs in terms of error checking and/or gap analysis. I then check the content for errors too. So I look at AIs as tools, but not authoritative voices of truth. At the same time, Personal remark removed

I also treat search engines as useful tools and not authoritative voices of truth. Conservative (talk) 20:08, October 20, 2026 (EDT)

Someone being more a fanboy of those hostile powers than their own technology is, does say a lot. --DavidB4 ^(TALK) 20:23, October 20, 2026 (EDT)