2021-03-24
I wrote this story on the Hypixel Forums a while ago, but I realized it would be a good idea if I posted it on my blog too.
ReportScammers was a robot on the Hypixel SkyBlock Forums that automatically replied to posts where people were complaining that they got scammed.
It all started on April 27th, 2020. I was bored and wanted to make a Hypixel Forums bot. At first, I wasn’t sure what I wanted it to do. Then I thought, “what’s a task that humans do often that could be easily automated?”: complaining about people getting scammed, of course.
I didn’t do anything with this idea until a couple weeks later on May 14th, when I remembered it, and was actually motivated to create it. I asked around on the SkyBlock Community Discord for what it should be called and what it should do, and I decided on calling it madcausebad11 (name chosen by @TatorCheese), and making it say “thats crazy but I dont remember asking” (@Bliziq chose that one) to all posts that mentioned being scammed. => /the-story-of-reportscammers/thats-crazy-but-i-dont-remember-asking.png Screenshot of a post on the Hypixel Forums where a user named madcausebad11 says 'thats crazy but i dont remember asking'