Re:Show HN: Hacker News Simulator
by dang on Sunday September 20, 2015 @05:22PM
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We got an email from someone asking why they were logged in as pg, so you've passed some sort of niche Turing test.
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Notably, this is what happens most of the time when something from /r/SubredditSimulator gets popular and becomes intermixed with normal submissions on a subscriber's front page and /r/all.
The way to beat a Turing Test is through hiding in plain sight.
9gag automatically reposts reddit's /r/all onto their site. People on 9gag don't realize it's a bot and have one hell of a time trying to interpret the post. Examples:
1. https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimMeta/comments/3fnkni/9g...
2. https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimMeta/comments/3kwmnj/9g...
Shouldn't we worry that someone has been fooled by the ycombniator.com domain and lookalike design?
It seems pretty harmless.
I wouldn't exactly call this a look-alike...
And pg has 1337 karma! (Is that joke too old now?)
It is kinda lame. I prefer 31337 as it is a prime number, while 1337 is not.
I would say it is timeless.
It's as timeless as the concept of using Markov Chains to generate a fake Hacker News site.