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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythian_archers: The Scythian archers were called toxotai (τοξόται, literally "[the] archers"), Skythai (Σκύθαι, literally "[the] Scythians"), and Speusinioi (Σπευσίνιοι), which was named after a certain Speusinos, the alleged founder of the force. https://www.thecollector.com/scythian-archers-ancient-athens/: Much later in the 2nd century CE, the Greek scholar Julius Pollux wrote: “Those public slaves before the law course and other gatherings, to whom they gave the task of restraining those who behaved inappropriately and those who said what should not be said, were called “Scythians” and “archers” and “Speusinioi” after the man who organized their service. (Julius Pollux 8.131-2) Of the politician Speusis, nothing is known, though the name is corroborated by the (undated and unnamed) scholiast for Aristophanes’ play The Acharnians: “The Archers are public slaves, guards of the city, 1,000 in number, who first dwelt in tents pitched in the middle of the agora, but then moved to the Areopagus. These were called “Scythians” and “Peusinoi”. A certain Peusis – one of the Politicians of old – having organized their activities.” (Scholiast On Aristophanes, Acharnians 54) /https://www.stoa.org/demos/article_scythian_archers@page=all&greekEncoding=UnicodeC.html: Archers: The public slaves, guards of the city, in number 1000, who formerly lived in the Agora, camping out in the middle, but later moved to the Areopagus. These were called ‘Scythians’ and ‘Speusinioi,’ from a certain Speusinos, one of the ancient politicians, who organized their affairs” (Τοξόται· οἱ δημόσιοι ὑπηρέται, φύλακες τοῦ ἄστεος, τὸν ἀριθμὸν χίλιοι, οἵτινες πρότερον μὲν ᾤκουν τὴν ἀγορὰν μέσην σκηνοποιησάμενοι, ὕστερον δὲ μετέβησαν εἰς Ἄρειον Πάγον, ἐκαλοῦντο δὲ οὗτοι καὶ Σκύθαι καὶ Σπευσίνιοι; ἀπὸ Σπευσίνου τινὸς τῶν πάλαι πολιτευομένων συντάξαντος τὰ περὶ αὐτούς) (Suda tau,772; see also Schol. In Aristoph. Ach. 54, which is almost identical except for saying “Peusinioi” and “Peusinus” instead of “Speuninioi” (That's a typo, it should be “Speusinioi”) and “Speusinos”; also Hescythius, 1137; Schol. In Aristoph. Ach. 54; Schol. In Aristoph. Ach. 707; Schol. In Aristoph. Lys. 184; Suda omega,243; Suda tau,771).

maybe change the name to "fabricator" and they will go back to normal fishing

There are a lot of bots recently making comments copied from other comments adding a link at the end. See below for an example. A lot of them are very similar. Don't click the link. Hopefully all these accounts can be removed and their comments too.

A lot of this has already been reported by Elexis and me to the only two people who can remove the spam: Stan and Itms. Both are on something like extended unannounced hiatus right now. More people need to ask them when they plan to resume activity or delegate authority to people who are active, I suppose.