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response 27 of 36:
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Feb 5 06:11 UTC 2003 |
I put corky in #party to play with pu for a bit, and accidentally left him
on overnight. i almost always give him his own channel. sorry for any
disruption.
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jlamb
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response 28 of 36:
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Feb 5 06:36 UTC 2003 |
resp:27 Corky is not a very annoying bot like someone elses bot. Pu is
the bot i dislike very much!
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mynxcat
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response 29 of 36:
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Feb 5 15:20 UTC 2003 |
Use :ignore - sheesh - What ecactly is this bot doing that annoys you so,
besides babbling - and there's a remedy for the babbling.
If there can be any real argument against any of the bots, I would imagine
it would be linkbot, and not pu or corky who just sit there spewing out random
sentences
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jlamb
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response 30 of 36:
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Feb 5 23:43 UTC 2003 |
It is the bots rambling about random things that i hate. Linkbot is a
good idea actually. Is there anything like a file that i can put in my
home dir, that autmatically sets :ignore botname everythim i enter
party?
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mynxcat
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response 31 of 36:
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Feb 6 04:12 UTC 2003 |
I think there is. I remember someone mentioning that they had set something
liek that - I *think* it was micklpkl.
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jiffer
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response 32 of 36:
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Feb 22 19:16 UTC 2003 |
Gee, and the people in party do not just speak at random? I think the
bots are educational, and you never know... someday may be on NOVA.
Yea for the Bots! Yea for the Bots!
And if you are so offended, why don't you just inconvience yourself
instead of others by going to annother channel.
There are issues, but the bots are not harressing, rude, or obscene...
so, what is your problem again?
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russ
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response 33 of 36:
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Feb 23 06:59 UTC 2003 |
Re #32: No, the *people* in party do not just speak at random.
They are usually corresponding with other *people* in what is
known as a "conversation".
The 'bots just create noise, which crowds out real conversation.
There are a lot of people who are too inexperienced to switch to
another channel (many don't know how to see which channels are
active), so the 'bots can effectively become a DoS attack.
Worse is that new users might come into a party full of 'bots and
think that they're real people. Think they'd ever come back?
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remmers
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response 34 of 36:
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Feb 23 13:32 UTC 2003 |
Well, the bots seem to have been a passing fad, which I figured
they'd be. Not worth getting one's bloomers in a bunch.
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mynxcat
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response 35 of 36:
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Feb 23 13:43 UTC 2003 |
They were amusing. It's always amusing seeing people try to converse with
them. And come on, I've never been on and not see people tell a newbie that
they're talking to a bot and explaining what a bot is. It's educational,
newbies learn something, regulars are amused, everyone wins. And it also gives
the newbies a chance to learns a new command " :ignore".
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naftee
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response 36 of 36:
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Mar 16 03:04 UTC 2003 |
'bots rule if they are well written. 'bots suck if they are written without
the coder thinking laterally. Then' there's just a lot of extra code noise.
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