If the site owner(s) and/or administrators are on the ball, then no, the only bot is their own AI. Bobby? Is that its name?
Anyway, I have had to deal with more humans than bots when certain profiles are sliding my thread down into the black hole, at least to page ten in most cases. Some of these people are on these forums 24/7 and are probably the bots. If you can be fairly certain they are signing off at regular intervals, then they are probably not bots, and you might be able to figure out what time zone they're in.
Every forum I go to has at least three or maybe four contrarians or Devil's advocates who will try to slide certain topics with subjects that are hardly related, if at all. They will ignore your replies and requests for more information or links and never respond to a fact-based argument. They either push the same topic or go willy-nilly on to other topics while never going back to the last ones.
Anyway, I have had to deal with more humans than bots when certain profiles are sliding my thread down into the black hole, at least to page ten in most cases. Some of these people are on these forums 24/7 and are probably the bots. If you can be fairly certain they are signing off at regular intervals, then they are probably not bots, and you might be able to figure out what time zone they're in.
Every forum I go to has at least three or maybe four contrarians or Devil's advocates who will try to slide certain topics with subjects that are hardly related, if at all. They will ignore your replies and requests for more information or links and never respond to a fact-based argument. They either push the same topic or go willy-nilly on to other topics while never going back to the last ones.
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