a couple of friendly
[2023-09-12 08:57:10 AM] : a couple of friendly teacher reminders:
• there's no "respect the hustle" for dishonest behavior
• I might be wrong since you didn't share specific examples, but from what you shared here it sounds like a great example of "AI brain" - much like AI itself, it seems like this person was doing little more than keyword matching their "participation" rather than actually listening closely and being helpful. imagine being in a conversation where the other person just latched onto a single word you said and responded with something vaguely related, instead of actually understanding what you said and offering a response that showed their understanding.
• remember the role of the mods: if you're actually showing up to be helpful, they're very likely on your side.
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[2023-09-12 05:50:35 PM] : fair on “hustle” comment. I think I was surprised to see such a smooth attempt at dishonest promotion — I caught it on random chance, whereas my experience has been that the majority of folks who pursue dishonest projects aren’t very effective at it. It was actually an extremely relevant and on-topic contribution to the active conversation, they were speaking with a different mod of the server and didn’t arouse any suspicion
[2023-09-12 05:54:10 PM] : Interesting! So the offense wasn’t promotion, but…attempting to be someone they weren’t? Or something else?
[2023-09-13 10:51:23 AM] : Yep, claimed to be a hiring manager who had a candidate show them this product after growing suspicious of cheating. I opened the site, joined the discord, lo and behold, created by the same account that claimed to have busted someone for using it. We were going to leave it, since it wasn't promoting and didn't even directly link (just named the app), completely random chance I followed it through enough to make the connection
[2023-09-13 11:40:23 AM] : that's some next level weird :sweat_smile:
[2023-09-13 12:10:32 PM] : i've seen all sorts of strange behavior, that's new to me and truly bizarre
[2023-09-13 12:59:56 PM] : It was slick! Would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for this meddling kid
[2023-09-13 01:04:02 PM] : lol