Salmon Master?

[Emora Deen]

PhasicSalmon (8:48:32 PM): Are you in for this weekend?
Emora Lynn Deen (8:49:26 PM): Who is this?
PhasicSalmon (8:49:38 PM): yo bones, we just got salmon'd. ever heard of it?
PhasicSalmon (8:49:57 PM): it's a thing...on LJ...
Emora Lynn Deen (8:50:03 PM): I have no earthly idea what your talking about.
Emora Lynn Deen (8:50:09 PM): Sorry.
Emora Lynn Deen (8:50:52 PM): Do you know who I am? Because I haven't got the slightest idea who you are.
PhasicSalmon (8:51:04 PM): haha, well there's a whole community talking about it. it's a relay bot, that connects two random LJ users.
PhasicSalmon (8:51:14 PM): who just recently updated their journals.
PhasicSalmon (8:51:18 PM): which i just did!
Emora Lynn Deen (8:51:22 PM): Bye bye
PhasicSalmon (8:51:29 PM): ummm.
PhasicSalmon (8:51:40 PM): fine, well, google this screenname.
Emora Lynn Deen (8:51:45 PM): No thanks,
Emora Lynn Deen (8:51:50 PM): You won't tell me who you are
Emora Lynn Deen (8:51:55 PM): So, bye-bye.
PhasicSalmon (8:51:55 PM): i'm dizzytara on LJ.
PhasicSalmon (8:52:06 PM): it's not that i won't tell you, it's that i'm trying to explain what happened, dig?
Emora Lynn Deen (8:53:28 PM): But, if I don't know you, why would I care what happened?
PhasicSalmon (8:53:42 PM): because it's an interesting phenomenon.
Emora Lynn Deen (8:53:52 PM): You know what an interesting phenomenon is.
PhasicSalmon (8:53:54 PM): are you saying you only care about things that happen to people you know?
PhasicSalmon (8:54:01 PM): to/with*
Emora Lynn Deen (8:54:04 PM): Nope.
Emora Lynn Deen (8:54:13 PM): I care about things that happen to people I don't know
Emora Lynn Deen (8:54:16 PM): If its a serious problem
PhasicSalmon (8:54:40 PM): so you don't care about free health care in america?
PhasicSalmon (8:54:46 PM): wait, that's a serious problem.
PhasicSalmon (8:54:49 PM): dang, i fucked up.
Emora Lynn Deen (8:55:13 PM): It is a serious problem because I can't afford health insurance
PhasicSalmon (8:55:22 PM): i'm sorry.
Emora Lynn Deen (8:55:24 PM): Its okay.
PhasicSalmon (8:55:53 PM): i dunno. it's just that you seem pretty negative towards this whole thing.
PhasicSalmon (8:56:38 PM): you don't know, you don't want to know, you'd even go so far to say that you don't care.
Emora Lynn Deen (8:58:12 PM): Its because you suddenly popped up and started explaining something that I wasn't prepared to suddenly be drawn into. I've worked 12 hours today and haven't eaten. Sorry if I'm a little... unresponcive.
Emora Lynn Deen (8:58:17 PM): well 11 hours.
Emora Lynn Deen (8:58:21 PM): Not 12
PhasicSalmon (8:59:09 PM): it's okay, i just wish you didn't try and discourage me the minute i tried to explain something. and i'm sorry you worked so long.
Emora Lynn Deen (8:59:26 PM): I apologise
PhasicSalmon (8:59:31 PM): it's okay.
Emora Lynn Deen (9:00:05 PM): I had a problem once with a guy bothering me on the internet so I'm a little wary of people who suddenly pop up and start talking, even more so when they won't tell me if I know them or not.
Emora Lynn Deen (9:00:12 PM): So, truely, I'm sorry.
PhasicSalmon (9:00:24 PM): ah, i understand.
PhasicSalmon (9:00:30 PM): well, i don't know you, i'm almost positive.
Emora Lynn Deen (9:00:56 PM): Go a head and explain what you wanted to explain.
PhasicSalmon (9:01:14 PM): well, like i was saying, there are a lot of these 'salmonbots'.
PhasicSalmon (9:01:40 PM): they take after the infamous 'hatbots', which worked the same way but are now mostly inactive.
PhasicSalmon (9:02:11 PM): they connect two random users of livejournal (but are now branching out to different sites, apparently) who recently updated their journals and have their AIM on their profile.
PhasicSalmon (9:02:36 PM): used to be that the user saw eachother as that bot, but now it's apparently two different names per incident. i see you as themedsalmon.
PhasicSalmon (9:03:36 PM): the community the missing hat on livejournal is documenting the whole phenomenon, and we're hoping to figure out all of this.
PhasicSalmon (9:03:46 PM): ALRIGHT i'm done.
Emora Lynn Deen (9:03:54 PM): But, I don't have a live journal... I don't think.
PhasicSalmon (9:04:01 PM): hmmm...
PhasicSalmon (9:04:04 PM): weird.
PhasicSalmon (9:04:14 PM): do you have, like, a xanga?
PhasicSalmon (9:04:17 PM): facebook maybe?
Emora Lynn Deen (9:04:20 PM): nope.
PhasicSalmon (9:04:29 PM): very weird.
PhasicSalmon (9:04:37 PM): duly noted.
Emora Lynn Deen (9:04:46 PM): I just added to your phenomenon.
PhasicSalmon (9:05:20 PM): you certainly did.
PhasicSalmon (9:07:38 PM): just curious, what do you see me as?
Emora Lynn Deen (9:10:05 PM): I don't really know.
Emora Lynn Deen (9:10:09 PM): A person trying to explain something
PhasicSalmon (9:10:15 PM): i mean the screenname
Emora Lynn Deen (9:10:26 PM): I was hoping you'd ask that.
Emora Lynn Deen (9:10:45 PM): For, I expected you to be a "salmonbot"
PhasicSalmon (9:11:01 PM): oh?
PhasicSalmon (9:11:16 PM): why, am i not one?
Emora Lynn Deen (9:11:25 PM): You probably are.
PhasicSalmon (9:11:36 PM): could you just tell me?
Emora Lynn Deen (9:12:10 PM): I'm not for sure.
PhasicSalmon (9:12:21 PM): oh, god damn, salmonmaster?
Emora Lynn Deen (9:13:43 PM): Your the salmonmaster?
PhasicSalmon (9:13:55 PM): no, are you?
Emora Lynn Deen (9:14:07 PM): If I were the salmonmaster, would I tell you?
PhasicSalmon (9:14:18 PM): i hope so!
Emora Lynn Deen (9:14:27 PM): Why, are you one followers?
PhasicSalmon (9:14:33 PM): sure.
Emora Lynn Deen (9:14:52 PM): Then do my bidding and take over the world wide web.
Emora Lynn Deen (9:16:05 PM): Explain to me one thing. What does free healthcare ahve to do with LiveJournal?
Emora Lynn Deen (9:16:08 PM):
Emora Lynn Deen (9:18:06 PM): Guess you realized I'm not the salmonmaster, didn't you?
Emora Lynn Deen (9:18:08 PM): Muahahahahaha
PhasicSalmon (9:18:20 PM): I disconnected you.
Emora Lynn Deen (9:18:25 PM): Awesome.
Emora Lynn Deen (9:18:34 PM): Or did you not meant to?
Emora Lynn Deen (9:18:35 PM):
Emora Lynn Deen (9:19:31 PM): Are you Jessic?
Emora Lynn Deen (9:20:42 PM): Fine then, Mr. or Ms. Phasic Salmon. I.... disconnect you!

[Mizuki]

all i have to say is, don't apologize to people just because they're being pushy towards you. You don't know them, don't give them the time of day. lol I automatically just block those people.

and i have no idea what to make of that convo. hehe.

[Emora Deen]

I only apologised so he'd get to the point. I never really meant that I was sorry. I wasn't.

I know that he really wanted to know what his screen name looked like, but I was just being nuts and saying all kinds of crap towards the end.

[Soran Nightblade]

PollutedSalmon (7:09:19 PM): Hi.
Hyperzorch (7:09:57 PM): Why hello, Polluted Salmon.
PollutedSalmon (7:10:05 PM): hello
Hyperzorch (7:10:12 PM): How can I help you today?
Hyperzorch (7:11:25 PM): That is fascinating.
Hyperzorch (7:12:31 PM): My boyfriend is cooking a salmon right now
Hyperzorch (7:12:37 PM): But I don't think it's polluted.
Hyperzorch (7:13:13 PM): I.....I don't think you're a salmon at all, are you?
Hyperzorch (7:19:32 PM): The salmon is so delicious

[Mizuki]

WTF

IT GOT YOU TOO!?

NUuuuuuuu

[Soran Nightblade]

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheGreatHatsby :


TheGreatHatsby is the name of an AIM bot that instigates conversation between two other AIM accounts. Its name is a play on words from the book The Great Gatsby. It is a relay bot that retrieves the most recently updated LiveJournal posts and obtains the AIM screen name of the posting user. It then sends the user the message "i say, old bean, have you seen my hat?"

Responses from users are then forwarded by the bot to another one of the users similarly contacted. From this both users are typically confused insisting the other messaged them first and try to figure out what is going on.

Any occurrence of ones own true screen name in chat will result in it being replaced with the name of the bot before being sent to the other party. Any occurrence of the name of the bot will be replaced by the screen name of the user on the receiving end.

[edit] Project Upstream

Recently, within the communities in which TheGreatHatsby used to operate, a new set of bots that are colloquially named the "Salmon bots" have appeared. These bots behave similar to TheGreatHatsby[1] but claim no relation to them, rather belonging to a secretive group called Project Upstream. Its opening lines are variable, but the bot itself always uses AIM screen names of the form of "<adjective>salmon".

The Salmon bots show behaviors unique to themselves such as not consistently filtering screen names or key details but doing so on a case-by-case basis. Similarly, they apply filters on the text sent through the bot on a case-by-case basis, transforming it into, as an example, speech resembling that of an archetypal Pirate.

[Emora Deen]

Lmao! Its so fun to talk to the salmon people. Even though they are just as confused as us, I think we are the only ones that have ANY fun with it.