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Answer autobot?
Trying to figure out what is going on. I had a question and some of the answers seemed like they really didn t read the question. Ok, that happens, but it started happening so much, I looked at one of the answerers (Kasie) and they seem to just be giving short pat answers that don t seem to be engaging the question directly. Are there bots that would take a list of subject relevant remarks, and parse them out at random to every question in a category? If so, why? One of the other ones they answered was: "Im 26 years old women and im 270 pound how many calories should I eat to lose weight?" Response: wear comfortable clothes during exercise so you can feel good also you can do more."
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- Yahzmin ♥♥ 4everLv 75 years agoFavorite Answer
Yes, there are bots here - all over the place. They post SPAM phone numbers for Yahoo Customer Support, they post links to BAD websites (click the 3rd green link below), they target a specific arena like Diet and post a generic answer that isn't TOO bad, but still is probably a violation. In some cases, they automatically copy and paste keywords from the question, or another person's answer. All this is generally done to gain points to get to Level 3 to post LIVE links - to bad sites, where they may hack a person's account or get paid for each click they get. Sad, but that is how many companies out there make their money.
- Anonymous5 years ago
Yea