Twice now, I’ve received an IM message from “ImplicitTrout”. The first, I ignored. I blocked, and was done with. Alas, that was on my laptop. I just now sign on to IM on my desktop, and low and behold, Mr Trout shows back up.

This caught my interest a little, because random bots usually don’t contact the same person twice, with the same screen name, so.. i asked who it was, and they replied with, “someone who doesn’t want to talk… going to sleep!”

They told me that I had messaged them first, which i clearly did not, and now im intrigued.With a little search, and very few results, i found out that this is actually a bot that takes 2 random screennames found on livejournal or devianrtArt (possibly others) and messages them both with a random phrase. then sends the replies to eachother. it filters out any attempt to tell the other your really screenname, and even the word “bot”

Its an interesting attempt to get two random people to talk to eachother. Keep an eye out for “ImplicitTrout, GeneticTrout, HellishTrout, PetTrout, etc… basically, “<randomword>Trout”

It is a bot, but on the other end is a real person. if you wish to tell the other party your real screen name, space out the letters or wrap it in XX or soemthing to obscure it from the bot’s filter.

you can also point them to this post, or Trout Mystery: Solved « The Chaos Fold