Generate random plausible comments

[neilellis]

Generate random plausible comments at random intervals, so the user has something to react against.

Some suggestions are.

"I like your article, it is very clever, do you want to buy some pills http://mypillsarecheap.com"

"I cannot honestly agree with this."

"I totally agree with the OP"

"I think you have a spelling mistake in the third sentence"

"Seriously, this is how the Nazis started"

...

[virtadpt]

+1

[kinduff]

+1, Looks like we could fork out faker module and extend it with this kind of comments.

[nicolewhite]

:+1: for using faker

[MartijnR]

:+1:

[tra38]

:+1: Maybe some of those fake comments could include multi-paragraph rants that can be mostly summarized as "I agree" or "I disagree".

[tessalt]

so here's what I was thinking:

• author can populate with some default comments of their own
• make it possibly integrate with hubot plugins or similar????
• I had not heard of faker, looks cool

[kinduff]

Maybe we can generate lists and then construct sentences with it, something like:

1. Faker::FullName
[agreeing or disagreeing] this article, but [random excuse]. [random comment].

2. Faker::FullName
[random comment]. [random excuse] but [agreeing or disagreeing].

3. Faker::FullName
[agreeing or disagreeing] but [random excuse]. [random comment].

That's what I got right now and it could be implemented with faker pretty easy.

[virtadpt]

:+1: for Faker.

What about something like https://github.com/substack/node-markov trained on Youtube comments or something to generate fake responses?

[thejduce]

I'm not a coder, but I would thoroughly enjoy authoring fake comments or sections of comments if it came to that. Just tell me what format and I will unleash my best snark. :)

[tthomass]

Eliza might be a fun and unexpected source of fake comments

[stig]

:+1:

[jsweet]

@tthomass Is it because of your mother that you say Eliza might be a fun and unexpected source of fake comments?

Now I'm all paranoid that many if not most sites I post to are secretly using echo chamber. Including this one. Especially this one, really.

[hueyy]

+1

[drewbrew]

@jsweet How does your mother's reaction make you feel when you say that Eliza might be a fun and unexpected source of fake comments?

[twosticks]

Was going to suggest only one auto-generated comment.

USER: this is echo-chamber, isn't it? EC: Yes.

Other than that it should not reply...

[manbearwiz]

+1 for a trollbot that always takes the opposite opinion of the OP. People would waste so much time!

[JamesParkNINJA]

+1

[ShawnMilo]

10/10, would laugh.

[gkrnours]

Would it be possible to use the current user past comments and some markov magic to produce fake comments ?

[stevenmichaelthomas]

:+1:

[Arood]

@gkrnours nah, markov chains needs quite a lot of data to sound even remotely trustworthy. I'd go for making a library of YouTube-comments or similar that gets added randomly.

[securingsincity]

:+1:

[keithmo]

You could integrate it with an Eliza clone (such as elizabot-js) to actively engage the user in a super-annoying manner.

[jacksonofalltrades]

+100

[tobsn]

don't take it too far - just make a simple username + comment list and have it store on first load. then people can just customize whatever they want to "post" ahead of other people so it looks more relevant to the content. that alone would be golden...

edit: and add a random date within the last 2 month starting chronological from the top obviously.

[simskij]

I agree with KeithMo: Using Eliza for this would be awesome.

[tra38]

I found https://gist.github.com/Otto42/5467402 while browsing the GenerativeText Google Group. It is a series of spam comment templates that could be repurposed for this Echo-Chamber. All you have to do is just translate it to javascript.

[brendanluna]

Usernames can be generated from the username field via http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/

[kinduff]

@blunatic: That's why faker was suggested.

[likexoo]

+10086