Do You Know the Real Islam?

[Cain]

An Irreligion Affinity test actually sounds like a useful recruitment tool.  We'd need to establish a baseline response though...

[Triple Zero]

Well, it turned out they were a spambot.  This doesn't necessarily invalidate the idea they were a spambot moonlighting for the NSA.

Really? I got the same impression when I read some of his posts which were very generic and barely-touching-on-topic, like the "I hope to read more from you at http://www.principiadiscordia.com", that sent off some alarm bells, but how did you find out?

I disapprove of your use of the term "real Islam". The Quran, just like the Bible, the Principia Discordia and pretty much everything else, can be interpreted and misinterpreted in various ways

As a Discordian, I take offence to this. The Principia Discordia can only be misinterpreted.

They were in context enough to try and elicit a certain response, especially the violence comment. Sends chills down my back.

Stuff like this really makes me want to write a Forum Bot

It's that the level of discourse at PD is relatively high (even when it's not, according to our own standards), but I've seen enough regular posters at places like TCC and T2 etc that couldn't reliably win a Turing Test against a reasonably clever bot

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Well, it turned out they were a spambot.  This doesn't necessarily invalidate the idea they were a spambot moonlighting for the NSA.

Really? I got the same impression when I read some of his posts which were very generic and barely-touching-on-topic, like the "I hope to read more from you at http://www.principiadiscordia.com", that sent off some alarm bells, but how did you find out?

I disapprove of your use of the term "real Islam". The Quran, just like the Bible, the Principia Discordia and pretty much everything else, can be interpreted and misinterpreted in various ways

As a Discordian, I take offence to this. The Principia Discordia can only be misinterpreted.

They were in context enough to try and elicit a certain response, especially the violence comment. Sends chills down my back.

Stuff like this really makes me want to write a Forum Bot

It's that the level of discourse at PD is relatively high (even when it's not, according to our own standards), but I've seen enough regular posters at places like TCC and T2 etc that couldn't reliably win a Turing Test against a reasonably clever bot

T2 is ripe for a bot... many of the posters already come off as bots that simply paste a preset or composite of preset responses to a keyword trigger.

[Reginald Ret]

An Irreligion Affinity test actually sounds like a useful recruitment tool.  We'd need to establish a baseline response though...

This image would make a good Irreligion Affinity Test:

Followed by:  "Reflexive Ægo Protection? Opinions? Komments?" aka RÆP OK?
Wait, that would be more like trolling than testing.
Oh well, at least i got to use æ eventhough i have to c/p it from wikipedia  every  single  time.
(how do i make my comp make that letter?)

[navkat]

Whatever, dude. I've sat and eaten with "real islam" women during Ramadan and listened to their convesations ad they have some pretty vile shit to say. Stuff like: "So-and-so is wearing toenail polish when it's not her period. She deserves to have an "accident."" And things like "what's-her-face didn't do ___ at the masjid last week. She deserves to see her children starve in the street." So bascally, the same thing all nasty, little cunts do when you get more than two in a circle: starve themselves all day, binge-eat all night and talk vile, jealous trash about each other when their backs are turned.

If the men are anything like the sunni women are during the HOLY days, we're pretty much looking at justifcation for being at code Elmo on the Sesame Street terror/patriot scale.