I see our latest registered member in Aug 2012 is...

by skully Mon 13 Aug 2012, 01:06

...cricinfoworld.

Is this a Cricinfo bot looking for stories? Does this mean we can start scurrilous rumours and they'll get a run on Dickinfo??

by PeterCS Mon 13 Aug 2012, 01:30

I fear it is an unsentient, insensate bot. Which will give us nothing but a buzz.

by skully Mon 13 Aug 2012, 01:36

I'm no expert on these things. What exactly does a bot do?

by skully Mon 13 Aug 2012, 01:37

Wiki says the following:

Internet bots, also known as web robots, WWW robots or simply bots, are software applications that run automated tasks over the Internet. Typically, bots perform tasks that are both simple and structurally repetitive, at a much higher rate than would be possible for a human alone. The largest use of bots is in web spidering, in which an automated script fetches, analyzes and files information from web servers.

by Henry Mon 13 Aug 2012, 02:05

Speaking of Cricinfo, has anyone else in recent times found the video on their homepage suddenly starting without you pressing play? I was relaxing on the couch yesterday when suddenly out of nowhere, I started to hear the voice of KP saying how very sorry he is. At first I thought, "Wow, he's right...He really IS God!" But then I quickly realised that the Cricinfo home page had developed a mind of its own.

by tricycle Mon 13 Aug 2012, 02:21

I heard that Shoaib has genital warts. oh, that's already done, isn't it?

by tricycle Mon 13 Aug 2012, 02:23

Henry wrote:Speaking of Cricinfo, has anyone else in recent times found the video on their homepage suddenly starting without you pressing play? I was relaxing on the couch yesterday when suddenly out of nowhere, I started to hear the voice of KP saying how very sorry he is. At first I thought, "Wow, he's right...He really IS God!" But then I quickly realised that the Cricinfo home page had developed a mind of its own.

Aye, and not just cricinfo, quite a few sites have that irritating habit.

by skully Mon 13 Aug 2012, 02:52

It is especially irritating if you have left the volume up on your work PC and one of these farkers starts up.

by Brass Monkey Mon 13 Aug 2012, 12:15

They've designed a bot to hunt down Dello and rob his material. After seeing the spurious shit coming out of their 'writers' over the last few months, I can understand their desperation