2007-11-15 Plans for fsbot
11:49 **kensanata**
- It would be cool if we could join #fsbot and tell fsbot what to say on #emacs.
11:49 **kensanata**
- Then newbies would go bonkers a dozen a minute.
11:55 **kensanata**
- Fsbot is already exhibiting a lot of artificial stupidity, sometimes he tricks people.
12:17 **kensanata**
- I don’t care what the bots look like on the inside.
12:19 **kensanata**
- It would be cool if we could look inside fsbot and see the #fsbot channel members listed.
12:19 **kensanata**
- Then we’d know who was controlling it.
12:20 **kensanata**
- Plus we’d prevent people from remote controlling fsbot via msg and queries.
12:20 **kensanata**
- Then we get back social control which is important.
12:21 **kensanata**
- If fsbot starts spewing insults, I want a way to figure out who is doing it and stop it.
12:21 **kensanata**
- Requiring remote control to come from #fsbot would allow for that.
12:23 **kensanata**
- I don’t think logging is required for what I want to do, since I don’t require perfect accountability.
12:24 **kensanata**
- All I want to do is this: fsbot starts insulting me. I join #fsbot. I see dUm6455 saying “tell #emacs kensanata uses vi!”. Then I can kickban dUm6455...
12:25 **kensanata**
- If dUm6455 only insults me once, and parts #fsbot after the first message, then too bad, he got away. No problem.
12:25 **kensanata**
- It’s like real life. Physics cuts us some slack.
12:26 **kensanata**
- Maybe people will start ignoring fsbot because of his lousy signal-to-noise ratio?
12:27 **kensanata**
- My solution would forgive one-time offenders.
12:27 **kensanata**
- After the first insult I’d be monitoring #fsbot and I need no longer need a log, long or short.
12:28 **kensanata**
- If this turns out to be a problem I’m sure it will be easy to add.
12:28 **kensanata**
- I just don’t like monitoring to a system that doesn’t need it. We have enough watchers in our lives already.
12:29 **kensanata**
- We need one of those rare saviours, those holy men of free software, a true martyr, A VOLUNTEER!
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This sounds interesting. I think however, that #fsbot should be a controlled channel and the #emacs people should allow only trusted people in there. That way, some control can be maintained.
– Noufal Ibrahim 2007-11-15 15:26 UTC
Noufal Ibrahim
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Or log #fsbot. Post facto control can be demonstrably justifiable in a way than pre facto cannot be. Though I remember sussudio abusing me via dpkg on #debian back in the day.
– AlokSingh 2007-11-16 11:17 UTC
AlokSingh