Re:A bot that allows you to say only original content
by Xichekolas on Monday January 14, 2008 @12:00PM
(#98189)
I'm tempted to make a pidgin plugin that does this and rejects all incoming messages that aren't unique. I'm sure the people I chat with would think I was an asshole, but it would cut down on the lol's that I have to look at.
Re:A bot that allows you to say only original content
by eru on Tuesday January 15, 2008 @02:33AM
(#98596)
Yes. And that is just the technical reason easily overcome. There's also a 'common sense rule':
"The moderator has plenty of holes if you're acting in bad faith. But if you're doing that, why are you in the channel at all? Folks who persist in doing this anyway earn (like any spammers) a prompt manual ban."
Re:A bot that allows you to say only original content
by Xichekolas on Tuesday January 15, 2008 @10:03AM
(#98688)
Why not put the same logic into a plugin for your chat client and have it warn you if you are about to send a duplicate phrase. Obviously it wouldn't catch everything ever said if you weren't always online, but if you were on a lot it would at least catch some cases, allowing you to avoid punishment.
Of course, this probably spirals out of control quickly. I'm surprised no one has joined with a war script tailored specifically to this type of moderator. Just give a bot a large corpus of blog entries, have it join late at night when no one is awake, then say every sentence it has in the channel... the table of things-that-have-been-said would fill up with all these bogus phrases. Might need a while to be effective, but it would be a fun experiment in moderator bombing.
Re:A bot that allows you to say only original content
by noonespecial on Monday January 14, 2008 @10:16PM
(#98491)
Ok, Kudos to Randall. That was a sharp idea to be sure. That's also some fine looking perl compared to what I deal with on a daily basis. Good job guys.
It would take microsoft nearly a decade to complete a feature like that... and then when they were done, there'd be enough little stuff wrong with it that it'd be unusable.
Re:A bot that allows you to say only original content
by Xichekolas on Tuesday January 15, 2008 @09:56AM
(#98684)
Would be an easy change... just add the nick onto the front of the sentence before processing each statement. Then you could lol exactly once! Better save it for a special occasion...
lol!!
lol!!!
lol!!!!
Stay tuned for the next version that counts in gray code.
"The moderator has plenty of holes if you're acting in bad faith. But if you're doing that, why are you in the channel at all? Folks who persist in doing this anyway earn (like any spammers) a prompt manual ban."
You were granted voice by moderator.
[8:25pm] pyl: i really prefer the bsd license, but run linux out of practicality.
[8:25pm] Shaze: you jackasss, there's no one in meta
[8:26pm] Cach-e: pyl: Oh. Don't know if I'd manage to play that game mentally then What if your favorite character die?
[8:26pm] roel-: woohoo I can talk again
[8:26pm] moderator: roel-, you have been muted for 34 minutes 8 seconds.
[8:26pm] roel- had voice removed by moderator.
Of course, this probably spirals out of control quickly. I'm surprised no one has joined with a war script tailored specifically to this type of moderator. Just give a bot a large corpus of blog entries, have it join late at night when no one is awake, then say every sentence it has in the channel... the table of things-that-have-been-said would fill up with all these bogus phrases. Might need a while to be effective, but it would be a fun experiment in moderator bombing.
It would take microsoft nearly a decade to complete a feature like that... and then when they were done, there'd be enough little stuff wrong with it that it'd be unusable.
Yes, I'm still bitter about my vista expereince.