invertigo hayfever

yeah this one is demented. my favorite is the few questions where the bot doesn't quite have all the information, like that a given item is only available in that location after a certain part of the story, and if you're lucky someone's paying attention that you asked the right question and pipes in with the missing bit. which is just, lmao

edit: well to be fair at least one of those is actually included in the bot response now, looking at the above screenshot.

To be fair we've had the "people join our chat / forum /subreddit and ask questions that were answered on the wiki" problem forever, even in communities that had a well maintained website or wiki. Lots of folks are either not interested in looking through documented info or lack the context to know what it is they're even looking for, and they just ask questions and hope/expect people to be able to provide that context for them.

What I see happening here is that a solution to that problem ends up being so useful that people who otherwise would've been able to read the wiki use it as well, in the same way that elevators and ramps are accessibility measures that folks who don't need still find useful.

(Not to say anything about the accuracy of what I'm assuming is a chatgpt-backed bot)

I remember when going into IRC to ask a question was met with people just spamming !commands instead of actually saying anything helpful.

I'm not sure what I like less, a discord bot spamming me every time I say something, or a dickish user using bot commands.

Ah yes. Man-made, cat-prophesized horrors within my compensation.

we may soon only have approximate knowledge of all things, ensconced in a million discords with only expired invite links. Eris would be proud.

ah yes, man-made horrors (sadly) within comprehension

the words "gamered onto the scene!" just fired a roofing nail directly into my brain

I love your CSS crimes for this.