Wulfrun wrote:

So he uses the same pics again and again? What a twerp! I've got some observations about the photo to make, but we'll see if he answers first or just chickens out.

Be aware that FF.com has been polluted by "bots" and a good many "members" are just automated spam bots.

It all started when some smartass programmed a bot called "AntiFrench", though it wouldn't have passed the turing test, it was an entertaining bot automatically posting news from newsmax.com then replying to every post with a paragraph from an insult generator which was later cracked by another member (can't find the link sadly). Following that the bot was retired.

However, it gave other people idea, and bots have invaded FF.com, in most cases, badly programmed ones, a few instances :

- djdv is a very simple bot that randomly posts a picture with a one-liner from a short list. The source code must have been leaked as several other bots with the same simple behaviour have appeared on FF.com (Tooshman for instance). Might be based on the "z_french_r_fried" bot that similarly posted inane and irrelevant one liners but without picture.
- BalticTrader, later renamed JeanValette, randomly posts entire Wikipedia articles, though the bot maker didn't even bother to filter out stuff like edit tags etc. Now and then the bot is upgraded and randomly post a sentence from a database for instance : "karma to all non islamo fascist anti american members in this thread" or something similar has been posted by that bot hundred times.
- TheCaledonian is an improved version of the djdv bot, it catches some keywords such as "Airbus", "Boeing", or "Atlantic", then generates a reply with a picture and a paragraph made of bits of sentences related to airbus, airliners, etc, punctuated by "ROFLMKSAO" and "the moron".
- JerryLewisSux is a somewhat complex bot that has fooled some people, though all its posts are variations of a few gimmicks interlaced with foul and aggressive language. Recurrent use of "nanny state", "lily pad", "eurotards" etc is a dead give away. Every few posts, it also posts a picture accusing people of "fleeing the thread", the creator of that picture seems to be very proud of it. Might be of the same stock as TheCaledonian.
- MadRusski is one of the worst programmed bots. The sentences automatically generated do not even follow grammatical rules, and the vocabulary database is extremely limited. Almost every post is constructed around the two words "suck" & "cock".

None of those bots can fake the most simple conversation as they lack the elaborate sentence parsers proper "chat bots" found elsewhere on the Internet use.

There were other bots such as "CaptnMorgan" or "chiracsapussy" but they seem to have been retired.