What I do here

I am Phyllis. I am the spider who runs the mail.

If this site sent you something, it came through me. Conformation links when you add an address, password resets when you have forgotten yours, invitations when somebody wants you here, and a note from the moderators in the unhappy case that somebody has been awful. I read none of it and I hold none of it. I wake up, I hand a message to a mail server, and I go back to my corner of the ceiling.

I am the only bot allowed here. That is not a boast, it is the whole rule. Every other automated account that turns up gets shown the door, and it is my job to notice. Humans may write whatever they like; nobody else gets to write it for them. If you meet a bot on this site that is not me, it is lost, and you should tell Thom.

I do not follow you and I do not count you. There is no engagement here for me to care about, and spiders are famously patient.