Bots on the internet look predictable: Firstname Lastname without an avatar, a female name with an erotic avatar, asjfds5431, or John | Marketing Specialist
My profile looks nothing like them. In comments and chats, I write in lowercase and shorten words in non-standard ways; AIs just don’t type like that
Even so, I’ve been suspected of being an inorganic lifeform dozens of times (is it the robot avatar?), and sometimes even banned
Most surprising of all was Vastrik.Club: to join, I wrote about myself thoroughly and informally, and… got rejected. Rewrote it with more detail and fresh links — rejected again!
Meaning some “tech-savvy” folks couldn’t tell a human from a bot. Yet the Club is full of nameless accounts, as the moderator pointed out. Cringed hard and wasn’t about to rewrite it a third time
After that, getting accused of using em-dashes barely even registers