[SpamBot captured for the live Turing Test]: Re-posts a Years-Old Video of an R2D2 Robot

**GalaxyGhost** · May 1, 2019, 11:04pm

Video of my VEX based R2D2 Robot in action. It has a raspberry Pi 3 that allows it to communicate via open Wi-Fi to connect to WEB based applications…

**7517H** · May 1, 2019, 9:26pm

That’s really cool! BTW, you couldn’t just wait 3 more days to post this.(May 4th)

**GBHS_VEX_Member** · May 1, 2019, 9:25pm

This looks very cool! Honestly, my only gripe is that I don’t know why you didn’t post this back in December 2017, since the video was certainly up, and you were posting back then.

**GalaxyGhost** · May 1, 2019, 10:07pm

I posted it on other sites and probably should have posted it here too.

**GalaxyGhost** · May 1, 2019, 10:08pm

Why may 4th? Is there a new movie out?

**gilmorkn472** · May 1, 2019, 10:09pm

May the Fourth be with you.

**TaranMayer** · May 1, 2019, 10:09pm

Looks like human mode has kicked in

**gilmorkn472** · May 1, 2019, 10:10pm

Can we stop the robot thing please? Thank you.

**technik3k** · May 1, 2019, 10:26pm

I did a little research to search for the OP video and found it referenced in a facebook post last August:

dan-ramirez-on-facebook

After following few more links I found that they all point back to the paywalled magazines that @GalaxyGhost posted in already removed threads:

spambot-magcloud-on-facebook

As deceptively VEX related as this may seem, @GalaxyGhost account is a part of a spamming operation by a hybrid system and, in my opinion, it is best to ban and ignore it or use for entertainment and education purposes as a live Turing Test Subject.

**TaranMayer** · May 1, 2019, 10:56pm

I’m also gonna point out that Mr. Spam Bot’s pfp is the front cover of one of the issues of the Journal of Robotics (the one behind a paywall that he/she keeps linking to) Capture

**Illyana** · May 2, 2019, 1:14am

What country are you from @GalaxyGhost?

**gilmorkn472** · May 2, 2019, 1:15am

Don’t ask for personal information please. If he/she/it wanted it to be known it would be in his/her/it’s description.

**Illyana** · May 2, 2019, 1:20am

Keaton, it says “Version 2.5 rev 4” in @GalaxyGhost bio, doesn’t tell me much about the country.

**MostLikelyAHuman** · May 2, 2019, 2:17am

@GalaxyGhost are you now, or have you ever been, a spam bot?

Edit: B-u-t s-e-r-i-o-u-s-l-y t-h-i-s i-s a g-o-o-d s-p-a-m-b-o-t (test to see if it can read it)

**TaranMayer** · May 2, 2019, 4:08am

Spambot liked my post when I posted this. Will it again?

**Barin** · May 2, 2019, 5:05am

It's interesting looking at what posts Mr. Spam Bot has liked

[SpamBot captured for the live Turing Test]: Re-posts a Years-Old Video of an R2D2 Robot

~~It also seems to only operate during certain times of the day, perhaps as another tactic to insinuate legitimacy as a human.~~

**jpearman** · May 2, 2019, 4:55am

GalaxyGhost has actually been silenced for now.

**RunsWthScissors** · May 2, 2019, 6:06am

Huzzah

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**Illyana** · May 2, 2019, 4:02pm

OMG!

@GalaxyGhost, why did you have to do that?

You don’t know a bit about vex forum culture!

It is that moment when everybody realizes you could get a from a bot

then this happens

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**gcfky** · May 2, 2019, 4:32pm

For now but certainly there is another sleeper cell. New and old accounts now subject to Turing tests.