Strange behavior on the Ropsten chat channel

<p>If this video title isn't the antithesis of clickbait, then I don't know what is. But the point of this video is &nbsp;wider than just to comment on some quirky behaviour on a geeky chat channel in the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Internet.&nbsp;</p> <p>There's a platform called Gitter, which designed as a place for software developers to go to chat.</p> <p>And there's a channel on that platform for the Ropsten Ethereum test network.</p> <p>Except the people on that platform don't chat. They post their wallet addresses. Endlessly. Even though this achieves nothing, and even though there are a couple of us there who point out regularly that it achieves nothing.</p> <p>In this video I discuss where this bizarre behaviour might be coming from, and at the end I talk about how similar things happen in other areas of life.</p>