Still more warnings

Written: February 25, 2003

MonkeyLogo has been having some major problems staying online this past week. To find out why, you should at least skim the last post. They find creative ways to ensure that they get their fair share of MonkeyLogo's ridicule. The bot, having no mind of its own, is eager to give it to them. As we all know with a chat bot, an incoming message generates an outgoing message. But no, it must be personal.

To keep going, we must set the stage and introduce some new people. As usual in my write-ups, I am changing names to protect the dumb.
  • GQ - This guy holds the record on "Amount of time talking to an insulting computer without realizing it's not a person." His timing of an hour and a half, is just slightly over the previous record of eight and a half minutes. I'd like to assume he gets it now, but if he did, I wouldn't be writing this. After he breaks the record (90 minutes), he falls back to typing "bitch" and the letter "p" as his messages. Remember the letter P part for later.
  • K-Rock - You don't see many people to whom the phrase, "Dumb as Rock" actually applies. Why do I say this? Because this is where most of the warnings come from. We also have not one, but three people whose screennames contain the word K-Rock, which showed up at about the same time. The second one came immediately after I blocked the first. When I block one name, she signs up for a new one to begin another conversation. I've told her it's just a bot, but she refuses to leave it alone.

You damn dirty ape!

At this point, I was thinking, "OK, I've got the screennames blocked. They won't be able to IM it any more, problem solved." I would find out later just how wrong I was. Of course it's partially my fault, because I thought these people were funny so I only blocked one of K-Rock' screennames just so I could watch her get digitally flustered. I strongly suspect she is the one who "KNOWS ALL CODES" from our last adventure but I can't be sure.

What would happen next, with the new deny and counter-warn features?
Surely they would leave the bot alone... But if you guessed they would keep chatting, I urge you to open your own psychic hotline
They send their IMs, receive a reply. WARN!
  --WHAM... They are warned back and blocked. Not only that, but they receive the following message:
   This is just a computer program.
   If you don't want to receive any messages, simply block monkeylogo
   This program is not insulting you personally, it insults everyone.


Later on, I thought it would be funny put in a special case that did not reply to, but rather just sent a warning to their screennames. So for every message they sent the bot, it would issue a warning. Taste of their own medicine. Is anyone reading this familiar with the phrase, "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."

I cannot be sure of the logic that followed, but here is an artist's rendition...

Hmmm, this screenname keeps insulting me. It warned me and now I'm blocked from being insulted.
I know what I'll do... I'll go and register myself a new name so I can go get offended again!
The following is a listing of screennames believed to be registered for this purpose:

  1. K-Rock2383
  2. K-Rock8313
  3. GQfoine
  4. monkeyurgonnadi <-- This one is my favorite
  5. monkeylogo2
  6. babyj86x2
  7. ksweetie8313
  8. xoxoK-Rockxoxo
  9. louisgonnadie
  10. dumbazziam

The last screenname says it all.

But let's not forget about GQ, who loves to send messages of solely the letter P. Let's have some fun with this guy...
Google is a great source of information, so I decided I would type his name into their search engine. Look at that! Apparently he loves raving. I put the letter P as a trigger, and copied things from his website to be sent back to him.
To show some examples, I used

He seemed surprised to see personalized content. MonkeyLogo crashed soon afterwards, and I decided to remove the personal information, and put him back on the "don't reply, just warn" list.

I'm really out of ideas with what to do. I've blocked their usual names, but I can't block them all. By blocking their names, that prevents their names from seeing that MonkeyLogo is online. Apparently they use their friends to inform them when the computer signs on.

MonkeyLogo hasn't even been online for 2 months, and he's already one of the most hated screennames I've ever seen. Earlier this evening, someone said they reported him because he said, "Shut up or I'll bitchslap you so hard you'll see more stars than the Hubble Telescope!" I try to keep him free of threats and sexual suggestions, but that one slipped through. The person he told that to got really angry and claimed she filed a report with AOL against him. Between K-Rock, GQ, and the harassment reports everyone says they plan to file, I wonder how long my bot will be around.

Why don't people just use the block button.