Okay, what is up with these weird "Hi messages"?

[MT2008]

I noticed this, too, and I have no idea what's going on.

[Jcordell]

I'm at a loss. We need to hear from some of our computer savvy folks

[Evil Tim]

Just going back through the old topics and noticed this; this is called a "spam probe" and it's basically test-firing a bot to see if you can successfully add a message to a page. The messages are supposed to be generic and seem innocuous, but in practice they always seem out-of-place and rarely make any sense.

[Jcordell]

good to know. 18 months after the question was asked, but better late than never.