Discussion The ratio between online guests and members is genuinely kinda scaring me.

[horseshoefalls]

I'm assuming for the 168 members online / 9,720 guests a huge chunk of guests are just bots, besides lurkers that wanna stay anonymous. But it's kinda scaring me thinking about it, why would there be bots? are they collecting information on us studying us like zoo animals? what information would they even collect? I'm assuming methods, information about mental illnesses, etc, but I feel like there's more to it, and surely thousands of bots have to cost a lot of money. This sounds so stupid and childish, but I'm genuinely so fascinated but also terrified.

 

[Zura]

there is definitely decent amount of bots but i feel like for someone to be a member they will have to wait to get approved probably discourages some users from applying

 

[horseshoefalls]

there is definitely decent amount of bots but i feel like for someone to be a member they will have to wait to get approved probably discourages some users from applying

I thought so too, I'm sure the approval process kinda wards off the bots but tbh it wasn't that hard for me personally to get approved. It only took a day for me.

EDIT: It probably wards off younger members too! I did not see that part, but yeah I bet there's some underage kids browsing on here with a guest account or some people who dont want anything linked back to them

 

[kitkatt]

Don't know why a bot would need an an account lol I will I hovered around in the void accountlless until I decided I'd sign up and my thoughts for once. I'm sure that's overall accounts here and you can't expect us to all be active active or remain active coming from someone who'd much rather avoid things some are here are and hiding and well and don't really need to say more :(

 

[Zura]

I thought so too, I'm sure the approval process kinda wards off the bots but tbh it wasn't that hard for me personally to get approved. It only took a day for me.

yeah same here it took me 1 day to get approved and i agree with it probably preventing bots to be members but i feel like a lot of people would just feel lazy and procastinate filling out details if it didnt give them an account as soon as they are done filling the details lol i mean i did procastinate a bit before finally deciding to make an account
tho i overall like the way it is set up and does reduces troll accounts too i guess

 

[Shadows From Hell]

Usually 9 times out of ten, the guest list skyrockets when SaSu is mentioned on the news, or on some other web site. The other one, the count occasionally does rise, and as you stated, probably mostly bots.

And if they are observing us like we are zoo animals, the least they could do is feed us some cookies.

 

[horseshoefalls]

yeah same here it took me 1 day to get approved and i agree with it probably preventing bots to be members but i feel like a lot of people would just feel lazy and procastinate filling out details if it didnt give them an account as soon as they are done filling the details lol i mean i did procastinate a bit before finally deciding to make an account
tho i overall like the way it is set up and does reduces troll accounts too i guess

I like how it's set up aswell, I'd assume it kinda prevents trolls because I don't think it'd be fulfilling enough going through all the trouble creating an account then saying some stupid shit then getting banned, but then again there's some pretty annoying people out there so who knows idk. Also that's so real, I procrastinated a lot too and spent 1 hour alone writing my reason < / 3 and tbh I'm kinda procrastinating even writing this but It's getting better

Usually 9 times out of ten, the guest list skyrockets when SaSu is mentioned on the news, or on some other web site. The other one, the count occasionally does rise, and as you stated, probably mostly bots.

And if they are observing us like we are zoo animals, the least they could do is feed us some cookies.

Hopefully SN infused cookies.... yummy

 

[COP2CON]

Skynet

 

[Pluto]

 

[ScaredCutter]

not much can be done by the surge of guests but, if ur ever worried when posting in public threads u can always use these!

special codes

if u cant see it, LMK!

 

[horseshoefalls]

not much can be done by the surge of guests but, if ur ever worried when posting in public threads u can always use these!

special codes

if u cant see it, LMK!

Aww thank you, I really appreciate it :) <3

 

[Always-in-trouble]

I thought so too, I'm sure the approval process kinda wards off the bots but tbh it wasn't that hard for me personally to get approved. It only took a day for me.

EDIT: It probably wards off younger members too! I did not see that part, but yeah I bet there's some underage kids browsing on here with a guest account or some people who dont want anything linked back to them

Mine was practically instant. Is that common?

 

[Forveleth]

Because the dead internet theory is not a theory. We are seeing more and more evidence that the now majority of interactions online are computers interacting with other computers.

As far as information, yes, there are bots, they are collecting information. AI models out there are scraping literally everything they can get their digital hands on. Everything you do online is stored in, at this point, dozens if not hundreds of databases, and is all part of massive data sets feeding into algorithms.

 

[horseshoefalls]

Mine was practically instant. Is that common?

I'm not sure, I wrote my application in around 1 AM (Canada) and I don't know the timezone difference for whoevers in charge of accepting members, so maybe they were actively checking when you sent yours?

Because the dead internet theory is not a theory. We are seeing more and more evidence that the now majority of interactions online are computers interacting with other computers.

As far as information, yes, there are bots, they are collecting information. AI models out there are scraping literally everything they can get their digital hands on. Everything you do online is stored in, at this point, dozens if not hundreds of databases, and is all part of massive data sets feeding into algorithms.

I wouldn't be surprised if they used my dead body to train ai at this point.