{"id":2769,"date":"2014-08-17T00:25:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T05:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=2769"},"modified":"2014-08-15T20:16:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T01:16:33","slug":"block-bot-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2014\/08\/17\/block-bot-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Block Bot Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone recently brought my attention to a tool called\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/bb.sarahlicity.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Block Bot Checker<\/a>\u00a0by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarahlicity\" target=\"_blank\">Sarahlicity<\/a>, who\u00a0comes recommended by PZ Myers as &#8220;Someone reasonable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This looks like a fun and useful tool. Naturally, I wanted to check up on my friends, but which ones? I\u00a0needed a website\u00a0to tell me whom I talk with\u00a0the most, and David Nicholz came through:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/D4M10N?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@D4M10N<\/a> tweetails will do the trick.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alex (@Very_Dad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Very_Dad\/status\/500391349926248448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Awesome! So here is my list:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2770\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2770\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/08\/most-mentioned-twitter-users.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2770\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/08\/most-mentioned-twitter-users.png\" alt=\"The people (and organization) that I tweet at the most\" width=\"410\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/08\/most-mentioned-twitter-users.png 410w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/08\/most-mentioned-twitter-users-300x275.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The nine people (and one organization) that I tweet to\u00a0the most<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Okay, then, let&#8217;s grind through them with Sarah&#8217;s tool:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/AmbrosiaX\" target=\"_blank\">AmbrosiaX<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bb.sarahlicity.co.uk\/#AmbrosiaX\" target=\"_blank\">Level 1<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/The_Block_Bot\/22941805\" target=\"_blank\">Storify<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SubManUSN\" target=\"_blank\">SubManUSN<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bb.sarahlicity.co.uk\/#SubManUSN\" target=\"_blank\">Level 2<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/The_Block_Bot\/1423614704\" target=\"_blank\">Storify<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BirdTerrifier\" target=\"_blank\">BirdTerrifier<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bb.sarahlicity.co.uk\/#BirdTerrifier\" target=\"_blank\">Level 3<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/The_Block_Bot\/36864284\" target=\"_blank\">Storify<\/a>\u00a0&lt;&#8211; hilarious<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ihasgelato\" target=\"_blank\">ihasgelato<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bb.sarahlicity.co.uk\/#ihasgelato\" target=\"_blank\">Level 2<\/a> &#8211; Storify (none found)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/toxicpath\" target=\"_blank\">toxicpath<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bb.sarahlicity.co.uk\/#toxicpath\" target=\"_blank\">Unlisted<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sin_notung\" target=\"_blank\">SIN_Notung<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bb.sarahlicity.co.uk\/#SIN_Notung\" target=\"_blank\">Unlisted<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lazysavant\" target=\"_blank\">LazySavant<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bb.sarahlicity.co.uk\/#lazysavant\" target=\"_blank\">Level 1<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/The_Block_Bot\/38959986\" target=\"_blank\">Storify<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenwalski\" target=\"_blank\">StephenWalski<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bb.sarahlicity.co.uk\/#stephenwalski\" target=\"_blank\">Unlisted<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ellesun\" target=\"_blank\">ellesun<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bb.sarahlicity.co.uk\/#ellesun\" target=\"_blank\">Level 2<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Storify (none found)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenwalski\" target=\"_blank\">SkepticInk<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bb.sarahlicity.co.uk\/#skepticink\" target=\"_blank\">Unlisted<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>My congratulations to toxicpath, Notung, Stephen, and whomever it is that runs the Skeptic Ink group account. As for the rest of you, you&#8217;re probably evil and should burn in Twitter hell. (Except you, Chas. I&#8217;m still laughing at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BirdTerrifier\/statuses\/402178824885923840\" target=\"_blank\">one tweet<\/a> that got you blocked.)<\/p>\n<p>My Twitter BFF&#8217;s\u00a0are the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cworst of the worst\u201d trolls, according to the Block Bot staff, along\u00a0with &#8220;a wider selection of unpleasant people.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span>Probably it is for the best never\u00a0to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/d4m10n\" target=\"_blank\">follow me on Twitter<\/a>. You&#8217;ve been warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone recently brought my attention to a tool called\u00a0the Block Bot Checker\u00a0by Sarahlicity, who\u00a0comes recommended by PZ Myers as &#8220;Someone&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2772,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions\/2772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}