Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32494145-20180608053344

On Uncyclopedia,

FANDOMbot is an actual FANDOM bot, unless it's a real good spoof. It is a signed in member of Uncyclopedia marked "STAFF". On June 6, 2018 it has deleted and replaced posts completely in Benson's 3-D House of Pancakes with YouTube videos. BHOP is the standard off-topic discussion forum. However, in all, there are something over 2500 articles or images replaced, so much more than BHOP has been wrecked. At minimum, it appears to be replacing intended content with something random. FANDOMbot does have a "contributions" log on its page, so we all can see what it has done.

Wikia or FANDOM bots, depending on the time frame, have in the past replaced YouTube tags with videos, also apparently  faking posting times and using the article poster's name (whether dead or alive), noticeable in that they did not match the timeline. For myself, in the last year, I have found a similar bot twice replacing a couple of uploaded images with a fairly random video. They did not appear to be things that could have been considered censorable (though one never knows with FANDOM and it did use a video that could be considered censorable). It used my name for the upload (that's forgery, folks), probably faking the time it was added, also adding the same video twice in row in one case.

Since BHOP has essentially been text, there is no reason for this. Recall that all of us were given a few days notice of GDPR compliance with controls being hidden or torn out. It has been an effort trying to reconcile that and this bot is sent in to cause havoc during that time. Previous YouTube tags were said to replace old tags that no longer worked. Since it is probably faking data again, with forged signatures at minimum, I wonder where this falls under GDPR? I will ask ENISA. 