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Sun, Mar 16 2025 3:44 AM (19 replies)

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ScottHope

10,689 Posts

Tue, Mar 11 2025 9:36 AM

SimonTheBeetle:
WOW!! What a discovery within a week!!

It's a brain bot.

On a different vein Simon, I asked ChatGPT to come up with an anagram of MaddoxChase. I didn't mention WGT at all and it came up with 'axe chads mod', how weird is that!

SimonTheBeetle

3,778 Posts

Tue, Mar 11 2025 1:06 PM

Another weird thing is that it started as Maddoxm2i3 but somehow changed to MaddoxChase. Since it's a bot, I highly doubt it contacted CS and politely requested a username change. LOL So how did that happen? Weird, isn't it?

ScottHope

10,689 Posts

Tue, Mar 11 2025 1:47 PM

I don't believe there's anything sinister going on there Simon, that initial name is what appears in its profile page URL. I've seen it a few times before so I wonder if it is caused by the sheer number of usernames there are now, but I don't know.

HamdenPro

2,537 Posts

Tue, Mar 11 2025 7:18 PM

ScottHope:
I didn't mention WGT at all and it came up with 'axe chads mod', how weird is that!

Perhaps, this bot was created by WGT. I noticed that it posted a week after "joining". Most bots post the same day.

SimonTheBeetle

3,778 Posts

Wed, Mar 12 2025 1:02 AM

ScottHope:

I don't believe there's anything sinister going on there Simon, that initial name is what appears in its profile page URL. I've seen it a few times before so I wonder if it is caused by the sheer number of usernames there are now, but I don't know.

True. Mine is the same way, actually. In the URL, it appears as simontya8u, but that’s never ever used in activity or any posts, always my actual username. But that’s not the case for the bot here.

HamdenPro:
Perhaps, this bot was created by WGT. I noticed that it posted a week after "joining". Most bots post the same day.

Honestly, Steff, I thought the same thing, but the problem is... I keep asking myself... what would the company even gain from making a bot like this?? I just don’t see the point personally.

ScottHope

10,689 Posts

Wed, Mar 12 2025 1:43 AM

HamdenPro:
Perhaps, this bot was created by WGT. I noticed that it posted a week after "joining". Most bots post the same day.

Possibly, but I already have over 140 on my list and there must be loads more, do we need new ones?

SimonTheBeetle:
True. Mine is the same way, actually. In the URL, it appears as simontya8u, but that’s never ever used in activity or any posts, always my actual username. But that’s not the case for the bot here.

I don't think it's specifically a bot thing, if I find a 'normal' user where that occurs I will post it, but I'm going to stick to my current theory.

EntropiaBones

38 Posts

Wed, Mar 12 2025 3:55 AM

Community Spotlight

What is the point of this , when it mostly shows manipulated averages?

MioKontic

4,661 Posts

Fri, Mar 14 2025 3:49 PM

Scott/Simon

If a username is 10 characters of less, the profile URL will contain the full name, thus:

https://www.wgt.com/players/miokontic/default.aspx

But if it is over 10 characters, for the profile URL, WGT will truncate it to the first 6 characters and then add 4 random characters, making it a maximum of 10 characters, thus:

https://www.wgt.com/players/simontya8u/default.aspx

Hope that explains the profile URL query. As for how the bot changed it's name... not a clue. I can only agree with Simon in thinking it's a WGT bot and they changed it, although they keep telling us that's not possible (unless they did a dirty deed and changed the actual database!).