[Theforum] IRC Bot - thepfy
A. Erickson
amanda at gawow.com
Fri Dec 28 14:14:20 CST 2001
> > Kill the bots.
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> -1
Why not?
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> > To trust the bot you have to trust the maker(s) of the
> > bots. That's a whole other discussion.
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> precisely. so, do we ban the makers of the bots as well?
No.
> people's perceptions of the room and the bots involved are
> what are causing friction -- not the bots by themselves.
> hell, thebot has been in #evolt for
> a year now and no one has had an issue with it.
That's not true. I think people have had issues with it. I think people
have been pretty polite in letting it play itself out. Now that others
are registering their unhappiness or unease with the bots, I am too.
> eliza's
> been there for a
> good six months or more (dean, correct me if i'm wrong) and
> no one has complained. martin wants to try one out and the
> discussion flares up. what if i wanted to learn how to make one?
Sorry -- my desire for no bots has nothing to do with Martin's bot.
Period.
Eliza was saying things awhile back about me that made me uncomfortable.
I changed what it was saying. That doesn't mean that I am now
comfortable with the bots.
> no, this isn't about bots. it's about personality conflicts
> and misunderstandings of the medium (irc).
Bots confuse the issue. Who programmed what bot to say or do what?
That's the issue. It makes *me* uncomfortable. Remove the bots and that
amorphous problem is solved.
> banning the bots doesn't stop that. the nasty graffiti will
> continue until the personality conflicts and
> misunderstandings are worked out.
I don't really care. I have registered my feelings to kill the bots. I
am more comfortable dealing with personality conflicts one on one. I
don't like conflicts hiding behind perl scripts.
> the only difference is
> that the nastiness will only be shared with human users
> present at the time and not taught to the bots to be
> regurgitated later
Which seems more fair to me.
> (though there's no saying none of the
> humans present won't regurgitate it later without prompting).
> at least the bots only "learn" or say things about people if
> they're specifically addressed. the same certainly can't be
> said of human users.
Kill the bots.
- amanda
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