Back when GamerGate first started I spoke with a few strangers online to reason out my position and hopefully perpetuate it to them or learn from them a better way of thinking.

As patient and helpful as I could be they would not see the need for ethical journalism, i.e. valid information from a trustworthy and verifiable source, because they were too far down the clown world hole by that point.

At least 4 of them eventually claimed to be a bot, to which I continued to reply that they'd quoted me, linked me to roughly inferable information from said quote and formed on-topic points tangential to the matter at hand and were therefore lying about being bots. They all got back with "LOL at you wasting your time!" until I insisted upon the matter.

Seemingly that's how you get automated systems which can reply ad infinitum to just stop.

Odd how idiots either wrongly label or identify as bots. They should just use the word idiot instead.