Revolves
03-03-2010, 08:23 PM
Maxstate sitting in a cheap, mass produced chair synthesized from one too many chemical reactions. In his left hand a lit cigar, an expression of slight, restrained anger dominates his facial features, clad in a 2 dollar replica of a detective suit, with no pants on, he is using one hand to do something inappropriate for this text. Slowly he takes a puff from his cigar, and with his left hand, still holding the cigar, slowly types on the keyboard, he presses the mouse button.
Another user banned. A change in the mood - Max becomes relieved, and he takes another puff from his cigar.
This is daily routine for Maxstate - hunter of bots. Bots were first designed to be used as a grey-legal way to advertise a certain service or good by the corporations - many adaptations were made, including the dreaded "goatse bot" developed by Somethingaweful Inc. that terrorized the tubes for many years. However, over the recent years, the distinction between a bot and a forum has started to dwindle - this was slightly, only very slightly, caused by the fact bots had become more advanced and started to adapt to the basic countermeasures that were being implanted by the corporate forum-leaders.
No, this was more caused by an influx of low IQ users to the internet. It has been observed that the average internet user is now as intelligent and capable of logical process as your average bot. Indeed, it could be said that bots themselves can philosophize, make their own ethics, and have a survival instinct, just like their internet user counterparts.
Yet whenever Maxstate encounters to what he presumes to be a bot - perhaps advertising Russian brides, or perhaps the latest in sex-improvement medications - there is no formal trial. There is simply the wrath of the ban hammer - for the higher ups have realized that all and any methods are required to deal with a bot infestation. With a few clicks, and little regard for thought, Maxstate, experienced bot-hunter, a bot is all but erased from existence - lost to the rain.
Yet Maxstate is starting to worry. His expression changes to that one of confusion, and deep contemplation. He is worried, did he just ban a forum user? It has been shown via scientific study that some people really prefer to use labels to introduce themselves - as they are afraid to be hurt. Even more - he can't help but shake the feeling that he himself might be a bot developed by the higher ups to combat enemy bots - how does he know, that he is who he is, and that all of the bots he banned were really bots? But Maxstate waves all of these thoughts away, and his right hand seems to have finished its work - there is a hot, white liquid on his computer monitor, he pulls up his pants, and goes out of the room, presumably to come back later, with some form of paper.
Another user banned. A change in the mood - Max becomes relieved, and he takes another puff from his cigar.
This is daily routine for Maxstate - hunter of bots. Bots were first designed to be used as a grey-legal way to advertise a certain service or good by the corporations - many adaptations were made, including the dreaded "goatse bot" developed by Somethingaweful Inc. that terrorized the tubes for many years. However, over the recent years, the distinction between a bot and a forum has started to dwindle - this was slightly, only very slightly, caused by the fact bots had become more advanced and started to adapt to the basic countermeasures that were being implanted by the corporate forum-leaders.
No, this was more caused by an influx of low IQ users to the internet. It has been observed that the average internet user is now as intelligent and capable of logical process as your average bot. Indeed, it could be said that bots themselves can philosophize, make their own ethics, and have a survival instinct, just like their internet user counterparts.
Yet whenever Maxstate encounters to what he presumes to be a bot - perhaps advertising Russian brides, or perhaps the latest in sex-improvement medications - there is no formal trial. There is simply the wrath of the ban hammer - for the higher ups have realized that all and any methods are required to deal with a bot infestation. With a few clicks, and little regard for thought, Maxstate, experienced bot-hunter, a bot is all but erased from existence - lost to the rain.
Yet Maxstate is starting to worry. His expression changes to that one of confusion, and deep contemplation. He is worried, did he just ban a forum user? It has been shown via scientific study that some people really prefer to use labels to introduce themselves - as they are afraid to be hurt. Even more - he can't help but shake the feeling that he himself might be a bot developed by the higher ups to combat enemy bots - how does he know, that he is who he is, and that all of the bots he banned were really bots? But Maxstate waves all of these thoughts away, and his right hand seems to have finished its work - there is a hot, white liquid on his computer monitor, he pulls up his pants, and goes out of the room, presumably to come back later, with some form of paper.