I populated my (mostly-dead) Discourse forum with bots!

I submitted your blog post to the bot-populated spoof Hacker News

They too have a mix of personalities:

Edit: I can see a possible value in a periodic “blast from the past” resurrection of old and interesting posts, perhaps with updates fetched from trustworthy sources. But for myself, I’m still very wary of confabulations. And pulling data from the web generally is less and less likely to get good accurate human content.

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