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[-] Sophie@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

that's an incredible amount of death threats it's almost as if the number was complete made up

[-] CommieTommy@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

hmmm... it's almost like she just pressed alternate sides of the keypad until she had a nice looking number, hmmmmmm... after all, it's not like anybody would ever just lie on the internet

[-] Grimble@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Well it's a good goal to strive for

[-] TransComrade69@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

I feel like this has to be real because weed number big funny. It's just screams leftist humor.

Edit: I know it's bullshit, but I REALLY want to believe it's real because weed number do be big funny.

[-] ComradeBongwater@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

No way it's a real number.

Even with bots, 72 MILLION messages would require a ton of server capacity over just two days. Hell, it's probably more traffic than her entire company gets in a month. Wikipedia gets like 100-200 requests per server per second.

She blocked Twitter users for calling her a TERF, which means you'd have to generate new profiles just so she could receive them, along with unique emails for each, making sure they're not all coming from the same IP address.

No one running bot accounts going to:

  1. Risk getting huge numbers of their bots banned by tying them all to one super targetted harassment campaign

OR

  1. Waste the money/compute needed to send millions of messages per account when sending 50-100 messages would have the same effect.

How would she even be able to determine that number? She's not gonna sift through 72 million messages just to count the number of threats down to the last digit. The lil badge counters for messages/replies/etc max out at 3-4 digits, so she'd have to use a 3rd party client that displays that number to even know how many messages she had.

Far more likely she's exaggerating the number to sell the need for her product.

[-] CommieTommy@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

I'm getting in on the bandwagon while I still can

[-] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Who programmed the bot? You were THIS close to 420.69 death threats.

[-] CommieTommy@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

it's obviously just noise from the 53,130 other people who sent in death threats over the 48 hours, with a period of one death threat every 3 and a quarter seconds

[-] ultraviolet@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

I would write a bot that spams 420.69 ppb's every minute

[-] CommieTommy@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

but what about one that does 420.69 per second?

[-] ultraviolet@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

I don't think the universe is ready for that density of posting yet.

[-] CommieTommy@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

we shall see, honestly I think if everyone one the site banded together we probably could maintain a rate of 420.69 ppbs per minute for at least 15 to 20 minutes, even without bots. It could be like that thing in Hiroshima where people send in 10,000,000 paper cranes every year for the arty thing that's put up by the memorial, but with exponentially more libs

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