Well, I've hired someone to do the advertising. Let's hope it'll attract some people )

I've seen three Hecates for previous month. I guess they are now new moon, full moon and old moon.

Shadow Friend
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Hello there

Stickers worked for a bit, but now they don't ((

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I see

How is your day going?

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I'm at work. There is no bosses around today so we are mainly gossiping and drinking tea
And I'm trying to write a post but my colleagues are distracting me with their jokes )

Where have you played before?
In English I mean. Have you ever tried playing on foreign forums?

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I've tried to play on a foreign forum once and I agree the structure there was quite odd.

So true 
It was the same for me

well, it's up to us too keep this place alive. let's play and talk and we'll probably create a community )

Oh really? That's a lot.
Well, if you have time for that I'd be really greatful. Right now there are 2 piar-agents hired to help us with advertising, so I let myself be lazy 

Lucifer
Ok, looks like it's working.
Starting form this post: yours and ours, for the next couple of hours, the ads posted from the standard PR account will be from my script. It does not leave a reciprocity link on our forum but it leaves it on the other forums

If you like, we can create a separate account for my bot to be able to tell apart its ad posts

Отредактировано 42 (2024-06-04 18:26:31)

Lucifer
It's my love for sentient machines bearing the fruit XD
Ok. I'll create something on the evening. And I'll tell you when the script stops. So far, it has left 65 posts and it has worked through 1/3 of its database.

Sorry for all this technical stuff. I kinda feel I have to explain as much as I can at the very beginning, so people get the idea what's going on)

Отредактировано 42 (2024-06-04 18:32:16)

Lucifer
This is not science per se, it's pure web programming, but I'm kinda proud of this little project of mine)

Oh, one more detail: the bot is smart enough not to post the same ad template twice on one page. If it detects that this template (meaning the same image) is already present on the last page of the ad topic, it will skip the forum. But if it had two of three different ad templates, it would post a template that is not on the page yet. Just for your information

Lucifer
It's pretty simple. It has a list of some forums already, and it has a smart algorithm to find the correct ad topic (an actual AI technology is involved in it!) on this forums. When it has found the correct ad topic, it parses the last page looking for ad posts with the reciprocity links. They are easy to spot because they are the only links which are usually "raw" (meaning have a raw address instead of text). Once this link is detected, the bot goes to this forum, verifies that it has actually landed on a advertisement topic and adds a new forum to the database.
Something like that. So, the moment you started advertising your forum, my bot found it and added it to its database. I checked it an hour ago - both this forum and your test forum were in the bot's database.

Отредактировано 42 (2024-06-04 18:51:44)

Lucifer
The bot has finished. 186 ad posts in about an hour

Lucifer
Always happy to help!

I thought these ladies would be our banners, by the way.