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Facebook Brags That Messenger Has 300,000 Business Bots (mashable.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the can-you-hear-me-now dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Mashable: At F8, Facebook's Vice President of Messaging Products, David Marcus, jovially reported that Messenger's integration with business is going swimmingly. According to Marcus, over 8 billion messages have been sent between people and businesses. And there are 300,000 monthly active bots engaging with customers on messenger. Facebook introduced messenger bots for businesses at F8 in 2016. The idea is that bots allow for automated communication between businesses and customers, helping with issues like product recommendations and customer service. According to Marcus, that 300,000 number grew from just 100,000 monthly active bots in its first year.

92 comments

  1. Consumer bots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    If only we could build a corresponding network of consumer bots, that interact with business bots asking for product recommendations and silly questions about products. We could then just sit down, and enjoy the fight ongoing between the two sides of bots!

    1. Re:Consumer bots by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 3, Funny

      >> If only we could build a corresponding network of consumer bots, that interact with business bots

      Congratulations, you invented "Twitter"

    2. Re:Consumer bots by sonamchauhan · · Score: 1

      You're more correct than you know. Consumer side bots = intelligent agents! The old dream of a digital butler that pursues your interests while you're otherwise engaged. The funny thing is Facebook is the right company to build them.

      All these business bots just outsource the cognitive burden to us users

    3. Re:Consumer bots by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      Unlikely. Why should they give their users (i.e. their product) the ability to circumvent and weed out the spam their actual customers want to push onto them?

      --
      We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
    4. Re: Consumer bots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      To improve their ecosystem? The end result could be an overall improvement. Advertisers like feedback, or so I've heard.

    5. Re:Consumer bots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Tell me more about why you think we could build a corresponding network of consumer bots.

    6. Re:Consumer bots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If only we could build a corresponding network of consumer bots

      You mean like, "My sister's best's friends cousin made $1594 a day doing some bullshit thing for Google."

    7. Re:Consumer bots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Tell me more about why you think we could build a corresponding network of consumer bots.

      This is already done all the time. Check out all of the pay-per-click scams out there. I've seen plenty of sites that generate fake clicks to make money off Google.
      Of course none of them say that's what they are doing, but... that's what they are doing.

    8. Re:Consumer bots by tomhath · · Score: 3, Funny

      You: "Alexa - I need an ambulance!"

      Alexa: "An ambulance has been added to your shopping cart."

    9. Re:Consumer bots by HiThere · · Score: 1

      Sorry, but no. You need to be able to trust the company that builds your agent.

      --

      I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
    10. Re:Consumer bots by AvitarX · · Score: 1

      I've never been spammed by a business bot on Facebook.

      I've had a couple interactions.

      One was opening a support ticket, and it worked like phone prompts but far quicker. I preferred it to an automated phone system, and also when compared to forms with drop downs etc. some websites use. It was quite effective for getting my ticket to the correct person that gave me a prompt human response, and wasn't a terrible way to follow up on said ticket.

      The other one I used is TRIM, and it was maybe more accurately a consumer bot, but it gave me info for price matches on things I purchased, got me Comcast refunds, and was all and all OK. I switched to a credit card with better rewards and stopped using the one with price match, so I no longer interact with it.

      Neither of these bots have spammed me.

      --
      Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
    11. Re: Consumer bots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, Alexa, call an Ambulance!
      - AN AMBULANCE!!

  2. "Bots" by 110010001000 · · Score: 0

    I prefer the term "AI Assistants". They are missing an opportunity here.

  3. Worse than useless by HangingChad · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bots are what you do when you want to pretend you're listening to your customers but don't really want to put any effort into actual engagement. Kind of like automated phone menus. Occasionally helpful but mostly a waste of time.

    --
    That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
    1. Re:Worse than useless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Bots are what you do when you want to pretend you're listening to your customers but don't really want to put any effort into actual engagement. Kind of like automated phone menus. Occasionally helpful but mostly a waste of time.

      Thank you for your post. Your feedback as a valued /. poster is important to us. We are sorry to hear about your negative experience with us. We will take your valuable feedback under careful consideration and will strive to do better next time.

      Sincerely,
      Bots

    2. Re:Worse than useless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nail on the head!

    3. Re:Worse than useless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So these are just like those "May I help you?" bots pretending to be people who pop up on some websites to annoy you when you're been there for less than a minute just looking at some product literature?

    4. Re: Worse than useless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Please listen carefully as or menu has changed. (No it hasnâ(TM)t.)

    5. Re:Worse than useless by Tablizer · · Score: 1

      "Your service is very important to us; that's why Siri's cheaper brother is handling this request..."

      --
      Table-ized A.I.
    6. Re:Worse than useless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I only really had one good experience with phone bots that I recall.

      I was a Quest customer and my internet went out, I called Quest CS (which took some doing as yellowpages.com doesn't work well without internet), and the bot apparently ran my incoming phone number against the DB, and said, "We notice that you are currently experiencing a network outage, we expect it to be repaired within the hour, if this call is about something else, please stay on the line."

      I didn't even have to say hello, just called the number got my answer. I miss Quest, they were actually a good ISP, now we are stuck choosing between Century Link and Comcast...

    7. Re:Worse than useless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Damn, that sounds like someone, somewhere, sometime, was able to do something functional.

      Unless all their customers where experiencing network outage and they just put "an hour" as a guess.

  4. Could you please inform me why I want that? by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What exactly is it that should make me enjoy having 300,000 spambots in a messaging system? Or why should I use that messaging system when the owner itself not only admits but actually brags that they exist?

    It kinda tells me that they think spamming users with corporate junk is a good idea, and that they aren't even clever enough to hide that.

    --
    We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
    1. Re:Could you please inform me why I want that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Without bots, Twitter wouldn't exist - and actual humans on Twitter wouldn't know about Chinese prom dresses so they can enjoy the faux outrage before moving on to the next hit.

    2. Re:Could you please inform me why I want that? by olsmeister · · Score: 1

      You have to admit, it might be entertaining when they reach critical mass and start messaging each other and bring the whole system crashing down.

    3. Re:Could you please inform me why I want that? by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      Don't tempt me, wicked daemon.

      --
      We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
    4. Re:Could you please inform me why I want that? by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      Without bots, Twitter wouldn't exist

      No need to convince me, I already think bots are evil.

      --
      We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
    5. Re:Could you please inform me why I want that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Without bots, Twitter wouldn't exist

      Possibly. When reading stuff like this, I am happy that I use neither facebook nor twitter.

      Talking to a bot - ugh. At least a human sometimes forgets to upsell - or realize that it won't work with me and don't waste time trying. A bot never get tired, never stray from the script.

    6. Re:Could you please inform me why I want that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Indeed, all that is needed is a bot relay to direct the bot communication directly to each other on a mass scale.

  5. Hmm Facebook out for themselves by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So really Facebook is saying anything good for us to make money is good for our users.

    1. Re:Hmm Facebook out for themselves by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      No, they don't even claim it's good for the users. I think they accepted that we see them more like a nuisance than a service by now.

      --
      We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
  6. no heart no spirit no life by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    digit addict carbon nation? cease fire stand down... creation all ++++++++,, inbred psychotic megalomaniacs invented the wmd on credit minus (us unchosens) plot.. in the moms we trust.. our nearest point of origin... thanks again..

  7. All those bots by xack · · Score: 1

    Being led by one Zuckerbot, harvesting human data on an industrial scale.

  8. AI has truly come of age by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    and this is Al's golden shower age, for sure.

    1. Re:AI has truly come of age by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      English is not my first language, is that the polite way of saying that AI is used to take the piss out of us?

      --
      We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
    2. Re: AI has truly come of age by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It likely means that they're taking the piss and pissing on us simultaneously

  9. issues like product recommendations by Errol+backfiring · · Score: 1

    The only issue with that is that there are far too many of them. These messages are called spam.

    --
    Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
    1. Re:issues like product recommendations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And what those zipperheads don't get is that I've been burned so much by recommendations that I ignore them.

      It's like 5 star reviews on Amazon - most people are just fucking stupid.
      "Hey, it came on time and it looks great! 5 stars!!" And then the fucker breaks or wears out in a week.

  10. Looking forward... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    To the follow up article where the bots get cracked and suddenly start spewing out male enhancement ads or something.

    1. Re:Looking forward... by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      And to think that this would probably make the bots ten times more interesting and useful...

      --
      We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
  11. Message to the investors by scottdhansen · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a great way to maximize shareholder value... Look at the impressions that we can create. Who cares that they are vapid and devoid of any real value.

  12. Re:Libeling me JustAnotherOldDouche? by kelemvor4 · · Score: 1

    APK apk

    Seems suspicious that your hosts file is an executable program...

  13. Abuse is part of their daily effort. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's competition to see who can be most abusive: Facebook, Google, or Microsoft.

  14. Facebook users are Facebook's product by sbrown123 · · Score: 1

    If you use Facebook, you give them permission to pimp you out to others. You are their product.

  15. I daily count my blessings... by thegreatbob · · Score: 1

    ... that the company I work for has the good sense to steer clear of letting FB get its foot in the door here.

    --
    There is no XUL, only WebExtensions...
  16. Re:Libeling me JustAnotherOldDouche? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Meds or GTFO

  17. Slash-bot. by SlashGodet · · Score: 1

    Slashdot on Facebook uses an automated 'bot in its messenger system! SLASH-BOT. Who points the finger at the finger pointer? Who curses the recursive bots?

    1. Re:Slash-bot. by HiThere · · Score: 1

      Silly, look at the word. Recursive bots curse themselves.

      OTOH, I don't think by curse I mean "swear at".

      --

      I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
  18. No need for middle managers... by Sir+Holo · · Score: 1

    "automated communication", from the article quote, is a nonsense term. Communication is missives sent from a person to another person (or organization). Source(s) for statement(s) always trace to someone.

    An automated alert or spam-cast HR garbage is not via a human; it is from a machine making a decision based on rules it was provided. That's not thinking. The courts should bear this out in 5 or 10 years.

    This is the first step of The Automation of Middle Management, so I applaud it. Eject the leeches.

    1. Re:No need for middle managers... by HiThere · · Score: 1

      Not so. Automated communication happens all the time. Nothing about it requires the intervention of a person. In fact, the presence of a person in the link inevitably degrades the process. You can't transmit information without communicating over a channel.

      And this is far from the first step of the automation of middle management. Many middle managers have already been replaced.

      All that said, what's being talked about seems to definitely count as spam. As in:
        "We've got more spam than anyone else" the Facebook manager cried proudly.

      --

      I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
  19. Trying to impersonate me again, lol... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Trying to impersonate me again, lol - thanks for proving I really "got to you" whoever did it pretending to be me!

    * For once you're not 'stalking' me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous though (still I wouldn't call THIS stupidity of yours an improvement).

    APK

    P.S.=> JustAnotherOldDOUCHE is a libelous scumbag punk though (yet another FAKE NAME for his FAKE LIE of a so-called 'life')... apk

  20. You project + prove YOU can't, lol... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "WildThing" https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12050669&cid=56534093/ (join us, won't you?) LOL!

    * I've dusted the hell out of you here & am EXPOSING it elsewhere (see link above).

    Thought you MIGHT like exposure in the limelight, but, then again?

    Germs like YOU simply WITHER in sunlight - come, wither some more, lol!!!

    APK

    P.S.=> For YOUR listening pleasure (lol, not) & "dramatic effects"? THIS is ME (vs. YOU 'domesticated do-nothing ZERO "ne'er-do-well" SoyBOY TROLLS' like you) WildThing https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ... apk

    1. Re: You project + prove YOU can't, lol... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      All I see here is APK talking to himself about nothing worthwhile. Go away. No one here likes you. Also, you are NOT a real man. A real man would admit when he's wrong. You seem incapable of this, which means you're not a real man. Instead, you are a soyboy weasel.

      Also, your obsession with people like Zontar is beyond creepy. It's like you have some bizarre attraction for him and feel rejected like a jilted lover. It might also relate to your bizarre fetish that you describe as people drinking your "golden wine". What, did Zontar refuse to drink, and that made you angry?

      Your parents must also be scum to let you grow up the way you have. Normal people don't relentlessly post personal attacks the way you do. And nobody is impersonating you. You made the original post in this thread, plus the parent and grandparent of this comment.

      By the way, I am bookmarking all of your personal attacks and other bizarre posts. I will be organizing the links and posting them in public for all to see. Your true character will be on display in your own words for all to see, including all of the violent threats you've made. There cannot possibly be any libel because I will simply be linking to your own words, which you should be ashamed of.

    2. Re:You project + prove YOU can't, lol... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Apk you do get the cheer of the crowd's approval like WildThing https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12056006&cid=56544044/ the do-nothing unidentifiable anonymous jealous "ne'er-do-wells" never can or will. It's why they try attack you and always fail. You use this truth most of all. You're what they can never ever be and they know it. They languish in their mediocrity being mere envious menials that are lazy and unskilled.

  21. LMAO - you're not fooling anyone... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: You're only fooling yourself. You don't even like YOURSELF - you troll me UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous vs. using your FAKE NAME for your FAKE do-nothing "ne'er-do-well" zero registered 'lusername', lol!

    * Odd how you OMIT JustAnotherOldGuy lied about me libeling me calling me a child molester too... not.

    My prognosis of your "delicate condition" (lmao)? Too much SOYMilk & bisphenol A estrogen mimickers turning you & "your kind" into the "not-men" SOYBoys, lol!

    APK

    P.S.=> You just tried attacking my parents (who are decent working class folks) & yet you say YOU don't try "personal attacks"? Please - everyone KNOWS you're cutting & pasting my posts all over the place (they must've got to you & @ least I admit those WERE posts of mine but I didn't do them here - I stand behind my words, you don't, whimp)... apk

    1. Re: LMAO - you're not fooling anyone... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Do your parents know about the comments you post online? If so, what do they think of your comments?

      As for your allegations of impersonation, you admit those are your words. If you truly stood behind your words, you wouldn't object to people repeating them. You obviously do not stand behind your words.

    2. Re: LMAO - you're not fooling anyone... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sure seems like JustAnotherOldGuy got to you or else you wouldn't be spamming this nonsense all over the place. Besides, he asked a question rather than directly making an allegation. Your reading comprehension is seriously lacking.

    3. Re: LMAO - you're not fooling anyone... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      He didn't say he objects to his words you repost. He stood behind them when you libeled him. He is right you don't like yourself. You post behind unidentifiable anonymous cowards trollings.

    4. Re: LMAO - you're not fooling anyone... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      APK must be ashamed of his words, otherwise he wouldn't get so angry when they were repeated and he had to read them again. When his behavior is repeated back to him, so he can see it clearly, he becomes embarrassed. But rather than modify his behavior, he doubles down and becomes unreasonably angry.

      FACTS: APK does NOT stand behind his words. That makes him a coward rather than a real man.

    5. Re: LMAO - you're not fooling anyone... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You are APK. If you stood behind your words, you wouldn't pretend to not be APK when answering. A real man would stand behind his words and own them. You do not. Therefore, you are not a real man.

      Do your parents know about the comments you post online? If so, what do they think about your comments and your behavior?

    6. Re: LMAO - you're not fooling anyone... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Soyboys, apk told you he isn't reposting his words denying JustAnotherOldDOUCHE's calling him a child molester https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12056006&cid=56542804/ but rather that you did. He only does posts like those to those that deserve them and he does it directly to them. He also said your idiocy doesn't bother him which bothers you. It clearly gets to you that you don't get to him and made him laugh at you by showing he is standing up for himself against a pack of SOYBoys like you is all. It was funny him calling you what you are there.

    7. Re: LMAO - you're not fooling anyone... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Again, you are APK. If you stood behind your words, you wouldn't pretend to not be APK when replying. You do not stand behind your words. Full stop.

    8. Re: LMAO - you're not fooling anyone... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You project your anger and shame all triggered after apk outwitted you letting you prove you're "not men" SOYBoys https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12056006&cid=56543692/ He isn't angry. He's laughing his ass off at how dumb you are setting yourself up like that. That clearly is the price of soy and its effects on your already dim brains!

    9. Re: LMAO - you're not fooling anyone... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You are clearly APK. You are obviously projecting your personal inadequacies on me. I pity you for being so pathetic as to engage in this type of behavior.

    10. Re: LMAO - you're not fooling anyone... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You are clearly a SOYBoy "not man" apk called you getting you to project that inadequacy of yours https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12056006&cid=56543674/ That was hilarious. I'm not him. I just get a kick out of getting you all triggered and seeing apk do the rest.

    11. Re: LMAO - you're not fooling anyone... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm not arth1, but I saw you personally attacking him over the weekend. It was truly pathetic. All of the nonsense claims you made about arth1 are actually true of yourself. He hasn't talked to you in a long time, yet you had a barrage of personal attacks ready to go. You are pathetic.

    12. Re: LMAO - you're not fooling anyone... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You mean where you attacked apk and got beaten down when apk used reality and fact to destroy you noting arth1 https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12042539&cid=56520473/ ? The soy and bisphenol A estrogen mimickers are really destroying your brain!

  22. Ol Olsoc projecting his problems? Yes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See my subject & letting you f yourself dumbass https://it.slashdot.org/commen... you inferior moron.

    * Don't try "patronize" me BOY when I can show you are less than ZERO fucker... easily.

    APK

    P.S.=> Your DIM brains are blatantly inferior evidenced by your FAKE NAMES online for FAKE lives of being "ne'er-do-well" scum having the AUDACITY to even TRY "F" w/ me & ones like you you INFERIOR swine as I cast PEARLS before SWINE like you... apk

    1. Re: Ol Olsoc projecting his problems? Yes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Apparently APK is just randomly attacking people now with no particular reason. You have lost any tiny bit of sanity you might have had.

    2. Re: Ol Olsoc projecting his problems? Yes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You mean when Ol Olsoc bugged apk this weekend saying apk didn't write his code and apk burnt him https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12036901&cid=56514897/ ? Soyboys the estrogen and bisphenol A you use have obviously given you some form of mental retardation.

  23. You just proved you're not a real man then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject SOYBoy (rotflmao) in your UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous "courageous" trolling - LMAO!

    (You know - I understand your SOYMilk & Bisphenol A "notman" SOYBoy formulas have addled your brains but that takes the cake for "illogic logic" from "your kind", lol!)

    * The other poster's not I but they are making you get all "triggered" when you see your addled thinking fools nobody but your sick in the head chemically NEUTERED (lol) selves, lmao!

    APK

    P.S.=> Classic... one for my bookmarks... apk

    1. Re: You just proved you're not a real man then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      1) Are your parents aware of the comments you post online?

      2) If so, what do they think of your comments and your behavior?

  24. You just proved you're a SOYBoy (lol) then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject SOYBoy (rotflmao) in your UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous "courageous" trolling you "not man" - LMAO!

    (You know - I understand your SOYMilk & Bisphenol A "notman" SOYBoy formulas have addled your brains but that takes the cake for "illogic logic" from "your kind", lol!)

    * The other poster's not I but they are making you get all "triggered" when you see your addled thinking fools nobody but your sick in the head chemically NEUTERED (lol) selves, lmao!

    APK

    P.S.=> Classic - one for my bookmarks... apk

    1. Re: You just proved you're a SOYBoy (lol) then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      APK's obsession with "soyboys" suggests he has a sexual attraction to effeminate males, but is ashamed of it. If it were not true, he would not be posting about "soyboys" in every comment.

    2. Re: You just proved you're a SOYBoy (lol) then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You obsession with apk proves you are the effeminate male you speak of with apk proving it for all to see https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12056006&cid=56543692/ as apk got that out of you and you're all triggered projecting your odd issues. Lay off the SOY, Boy!

    3. Re: You just proved you're a SOYBoy (lol) then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      APK has no answer and is incapable of a proper rebuttal, so he pretends to not be APK. Pathetic!

    4. Re: You just proved you're a SOYBoy (lol) then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Just heard your song from your band "the SOYBoyz": 'If you're going to TransManCisco. Be sure you wear your jimmyhats there. If you're going, to TransManCisco. You're going to meet a lot of transtesticle monsters and soyboy not men there. All across the nation. Hear the surgical sawblade vibration! Men's peckers and balls falling into an ocean. SF Bay devotions!' Captcha was organs. How ironic. You had yours sawed off hahahaha!

  25. You still answer to your parents SOYBoy? LOL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Thanks for projecting you still live w/ your momma SOYBoy https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12056006&cid=56543692/ & proving you're really a SOYBoy (above & beyond that link, lmao) once again!

    CLUE: I don't answer to my parents (like you, lmao).

    * See everyone? THAT is what SOY does to a once male brain, lol - it makes it stupid (like yours CLEARLY has evidenced itself to be).

    APK

    P.S.=> I can see you now, "QuAkiNg" in your effete EFFEMINATE 'RaGe' going for a SYRING FULL of SOYMilk (drinking it doesn't do it for your kind anymore - no, not even SMOKING shredded plastic bisphenol A milk cartons (hahaha) - no, you're FULL-BLOWN SoyAddicts now on the needle, RoTfLmAo (like Bruce Willis in LOOPER (you're all "Loopy" it fits & you prove it in the link above) Year 6 to 23, hahahaha!)... apk

    1. Re: You still answer to your parents SOYBoy? LOL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What would your parents think if they saw all the vile things you've said to Coren22? I've seen you say lots of incredibly nasty things about Coren22 and they were all completely uncalled for. I suspect that your parents are ashamed of you. I'm not Coren22, but even I am ashamed of your comments.

    2. Re: You still answer to your parents SOYBoy? LOL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Obviously you project you're whoever Coren22 is and anyone, parents included, would be laughing @ you https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12056006&cid=56543674/ after apk got the best of you there. It is hilarious and if you wouldn't attack apk fools like you wouldn't be so butthurt triggered and obsessed with the one who totally gets the best of you soyboy 1/2 women everytime in apk.

  26. Quoted registered /.ers disagree soyboy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017

    (APK's work), I've flat out said it's good by BronsCon February 11 2016

    his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015

    his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015

    I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015

    I do use APK's host file on all my systems at home by OrangeTide December 01 2017

    I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

    * Want more? Ask.

    APK

    P.S.=> It builds the hosts file for them from reputable security community sources - I'm amazed it's done so well worldwide (100's of 1,000 use it)... apk

    1. Re: Quoted registered /.ers disagree soyboy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nearly all of those testimonials are taken out of context and the original comments include significant criticisms of you. You are intellectually dishonest. What a liar!

    2. Re: Quoted registered /.ers disagree soyboy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's no lie to quote people saying they like and use his work. They did say those quotes. No changing that. Do you get that from us? No. Go away soyboy. The estrogen and bisphenol A use you do is creating mental problems for you. Jealousy being one obviously!

  27. I am a total loser... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject & whenever I can't defend myself against a truthful comment, I post and PRETEND to not be myself. I KNOW that everyone SEES THROUGH my total BULLSHIT, but it's all I have. I am INCAPABLE of arguing against their posts so I take a CHICKENSHIT way out.

    * It's almost like I'm a SOYBOY weasel. And, in fact, I actually am a SOYBOY weasel. My personal attacks are actually me PROJECTING MY INADEQUACIES on other people.

    I know these posts are PATHETIC and that EVERYONE sees through them, but it's all I've got. Despite my OBVIOUS FAILURES, all of you keep responding to my complete and utter INEPTITUDE and help me expose my failure.

    It truly is COWARDLY for me to DEFLECT and PRETEND that I'm not APK while responding to valid criticisms. I am a FUCKING LOSER who loves to criticize and attack others, but can't take the heat for the attacks I deliver on others.

    APK

    P.S.=> I am truly sorry for being such a LOSER do-nothing "ne'er-do-well" that I have to pretend that I'm not APK. I truly am a pathetic sight to see, and I apologize to anyone who has to argue with me. I am pathetic... apk

    1. Re:I am a total loser... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Fake apk did hearing your song trigger you https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12056006&cid=56544352/ or was it apk exposing your soy addition https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12056006&cid=56543674/ hahahahaha both are classical hilariousness but true of your kind!

  28. Another PATHETIC reply from me (lol)... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject & whenever I can't defend myself against a truthful comment, I post and PRETEND to not be myself. I KNOW that everyone SEES THROUGH my total BULLSHIT, but it's all I have. I am INCAPABLE of arguing against their posts so I take a CHICKENSHIT way out.

    * It's almost like I'm a SOYBOY weasel. And, in fact, I actually am a SOYBOY weasel. My personal attacks are actually me PROJECTING MY INADEQUACIES on other people.

    I know these posts are PATHETIC and that EVERYONE sees through them, but it's all I've got. Despite my OBVIOUS FAILURES, all of you keep responding to my complete and utter INEPTITUDE and help me expose my failure.

    It truly is COWARDLY for me to DEFLECT and PRETEND that I'm not APK while responding to valid criticisms. I am a FUCKING LOSER who loves to criticize and attack others, but can't take the heat for the attacks I deliver on others. I am a sad, bitter little man.

    APK

    P.S.=> I am truly sorry for being such a LOSER do-nothing "ne'er-do-well" that I have to pretend that I'm not APK. I truly am a pathetic sight to see, and I apologize to anyone who has to argue with me. I am pathetic... apk

  29. Another deflection because I'm a coward... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject & whenever I can't defend myself against a truthful comment, I post and PRETEND to not be myself. I KNOW that everyone SEES THROUGH my total BULLSHIT, but it's all I have. I am INCAPABLE of arguing against their posts so I take a CHICKENSHIT way out.

    * It's almost like I'm a SOYBOY weasel. And, in fact, I actually am a SOYBOY weasel. My personal attacks are actually me PROJECTING MY INADEQUACIES on other people.

    I know these posts are PATHETIC and that EVERYONE sees through them, but it's all I've got. Despite my OBVIOUS FAILURES, all of you keep responding to my complete and utter INEPTITUDE and help me expose my failure.

    It truly is COWARDLY for me to DEFLECT and PRETEND that I'm not APK while responding to valid criticisms. I am a FUCKING LOSER who loves to criticize and attack others, but can't take the heat for the attacks I deliver on others. My post was INCREDIBLY UNFUNNY despite me pretending otherwise. I am a SAD and pathetic little person (not man).

    APK

    P.S.=> I am truly sorry for being such a LOSER do-nothing "ne'er-do-well" that I have to pretend that I'm not APK. I truly am a pathetic sight to see, and I apologize to anyone who has to argue with me. I am pathetic... apk

    1. Re:Another deflection because I'm a coward... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Fake apk did hearing your song trigger you https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12056006&cid=56544352/ or was it apk exposing your soy addiction https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12056006&cid=56543674/ hahahaha both = classics!

  30. I'm still a pathetic loser... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject & whenever I can't defend myself against a truthful comment, I post and PRETEND to not be myself. I KNOW that everyone SEES THROUGH my total BULLSHIT, but it's all I have. I am INCAPABLE of arguing against their posts so I take a CHICKENSHIT way out.

    * It's almost like I'm a SOYBOY weasel. And, in fact, I actually am a SOYBOY weasel. My personal attacks are actually me PROJECTING MY INADEQUACIES on other people.

    I know these posts are PATHETIC and that EVERYONE sees through them, but it's all I've got. Despite my OBVIOUS FAILURES, all of you keep responding to my complete and utter INEPTITUDE and help me expose my failure.

    It truly is COWARDLY for me to DEFLECT and PRETEND that I'm not APK while responding to valid criticisms. I am a FUCKING LOSER who loves to criticize and attack others, but can't take the heat for the attacks I deliver on others. I claim others are UNMANLY SOYBOYS, but really that's ME and I'm too COWARDLY to admit it. I AM A SOYBOY NOT-MAN. I'm pathetic, aren't I (lmao)?

    APK

    P.S.=> I am truly sorry for being such a LOSER do-nothing "ne'er-do-well" that I have to pretend that I'm not APK. I truly am a pathetic sight to see, and I apologize to anyone who has to argue with me. I am pathetic... apk

    1. Re:I'm still a pathetic loser... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ah, twas the tune! Play it again Sam - the viral hit by "The SoyBoyz": ''If you're going to TransManCisco. Be sure you wear your jimmyhats + bring Preperation H there. If you're going, to TransManCisco. You're going to meet a lot of transtesticle monsters and soyboy not men there. All across the nation: Surgical sawblade vibrations! Surgeons in motion, Sawing peckers + ball off tossing them into the SF Bay Ocean...' hahahaha classic!

  31. Re:Libeling me JustAnotherOldDouche? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You project your "SOYBoy" (hahaha) addiction to bisphenol A and SOYMilk! Your bitch tits bugging ya again? Hahahaha.