In a message dated 2/17/2008 7:53:40 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, wilydoppelganger@gmail.com writes:
Err, the number of individual human beings signing the petition probably consists of several thousand now, given the recent publicity. If you actually cared, it'd be pretty easy to parse the signatures for duplicates and remove them - the signing bot isn't very subtle.>>
------------------ My point being that they might be being deliberately deceptive. You can't catch that with a de-dupper. I could sign any name I choose, and 15 different ones. You wouldn't know.
Will Johnson
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On Feb 17, 2008 11:41 PM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 2/17/2008 7:53:40 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, wilydoppelganger@gmail.com writes:
Err, the number of individual human beings signing the petition probably consists of several thousand now, given the recent publicity. If you actually cared, it'd be pretty easy to parse the signatures for duplicates and remove them - the signing bot isn't very subtle.>>
My point being that they might be being deliberately deceptive. You can't catch that with a de-dupper. I could sign any name I choose, and 15 different ones. You wouldn't know.
Will Johnson
Err, in this specific case, the bot signing the petition appears to randomly generate names, but use identical comments in the comment field, which is how it became apparent to me in the first place that this was going on.
Of course, it could just be copy-pasting, but as I recall the originator of the petition was a computer science student in Pakistan, so one can make educated guesses.
WilyD