No disrespect intended, but QR’s post seems a lot like bot posts an other board I frequent.
Hope you are a real person, QR. 
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Why would someone bother to create a bot ro promote talc?
people used to wonder the same thing about putting a computer into a watch…
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People pay up to $800 for “smart” watches.
No idea. But the another board I’m on will intermittently and randomly have a newish user pop up w/ info on the thread subject, using the same sort of syntax.
I don’t know enough about bots to state that a real person created a bot specifically to talk about talc. Maybe the programming was more generalized.
But, again, hopefully I’m wrong.
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Probably AI training. @QR_code, are you AI training?
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And I think the mystery is solved…
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Good spot @paranoidgarliclover
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It was? I am slow, obviously.
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The post that made it evident was deleted
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LOL that QR liked this…
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Only slower than AI bots and me reporting all of their posts (well, the second bots post, at least).
I didn’t report the bots post on Thailand recs b/c that might be useful. But I was conflicted b/c I don’t want bots “in the wild” learning from people… ::shudder::
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So the David guy was a bot too?
I think so. Its initial post in the Swig thread was neatly typed and then the syntax and punctuation started to degrade exponentially. It was seriously wild.
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Hard to tell spambots from limited-English human spammers until the bot writes something no human would.
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We need a bot to work for us humans to help detect bots:
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They are doing it all the time and in many cases nobody recognizes - as with every technology there are different level of quality companies behind it
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I know. That’s perhaps what I find most disturbing of all… 
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Not really new - With the rise of social media, we humans have been the product for well over a decade (dare I even say two decades) now…
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I’m gonna wait for the new user to prove me wrong about them being a bot…
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