Doc SmooTH

I used to work at Empire Today, where Lynn Hauldren was the voice of the Empire Man.

I think this song from his barbershop quartet is the only fitting eulogy from someone who never met him.

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For background: DocSmooTH is a bot, 8ball relies on Perl’s “random()” function, and everyone in the channel thinks that Remfin is really a bot, so they often call him Skynet.

<Newpa_Hasai> !8ball In 10-20 years, will a large number of USN ships run on fusion, and be armed with railguns?
<DocSmooTH> My sources say no.
<Remfin> !8ball In 10-20 years, will a large number of USN ships be controlled by Skynet and turned on humans?
<DocSmooTH> Ask again later.
<Remfin> clearly skynet's time travel capabilities are making 8ball unreliable
<vdou|> !8ball is Remfin really Skynet?
<DocSmooTH> I have my doubts.
<vdou|> !8ball have you been hax0rd?
<DocSmooTH> Yes - definitely.
<vdou|> 
<Remfin> !8ball were you messing with vdou?
<DocSmooTH> My reply is no.
<Remfin> !8ball but are you messing with me now?
<DocSmooTH> Better not tell you now.

I swear I didn’t mess with that output, or the actual exchange.

First written on Twitter:

@docsmooth: Signs of twitspam: bio is tinyurl; <100 updates, >200 following/ers;all updates “from twitfeed”, inc. link; no conversation. Check yourself!

I just went through my followers list on twitblock.org and thought I’d write a bit deeper on this subject.

Ways to determine a twitter spammer – higher scores are more likely spammers:

• Bio link is tinyurl or bit.ly or other URL shortener. There is *never* a reason to put this in your URL link on Twitter, unless you’re hiding the destination. +10 pts
• you have more than 200 “friends” and less than 100 updates. +2 pts
• you have a follower/following ratio below. .5 +2pts
• Every single tweet has a link. +5 pts
• Every single tweet is from TwitFeed. +5 pts
• More than 2 tweets are from an unregistered API app. +8 pts
• You have never @replied anyone. +1 pts

I generally block anyone above a “9″ score on this scale.