Forum:IRC Bot Approval

Yes, yet more on the topic of the IRC from myself; seems to be rather a bit of an obsession of mine in pursuing ways in which to improve our Internet Relay Chat channel #swfanon. For this, I'll explain the proposal: An IRC bot is something similar to a Wiki Bot (Such asWeeg) but, instead, works on an IRC system, in this case our own channel. They use a variety of different clients and commands (depending on the owner and client) and can perform different tasks, that would be otherwise monotonous for general users; very similar to what Wiki bots do, but in an IRC sense. However, a community approval is technically needed to have such bots in the channel by my belief, as it is with a Wiki bot, and so I'll make the proposal for the few bots we have on #swfanon (Relatively new, I may add) to be approved by the community.

Our first bot on the channel is 'WallyBot', my own IRC bot who runs using mIRC and has a variety of different commands that aren't useless and merely there for amusement that all focus around linking; Wally can link to any article here on Star Wars Fanon, Wikipedia, Wookieepedia, Halopedia, Uncyclopedia and a multitude of other wikis at a simple click of a button; !Wiki Article name will instantly mean Wally will link to the article 'Article name' here on our Wiki. Saving the otherwise monotonous task of typing these links out in full, he also has the ability to keep logs in the channel without anyone being about, meaning trolls can be found and punished later if there's no one active in the channel at the time.

'Whop', I discovered tonight, is how Whopper implements his new anti-troll measures. The bot 'Whop' has operator status on #swfanon from signing into Whopper's account, which was recently voted to retain its operator status. This bot focuses around security measures, such as auto kickbanning any known trolls who use proxys to avoid bans, muting the channel in the event of spam and kicking the rule breakers and other such security measures. I have no idea what kind of client and IRC system Whop uses, however I hope to find out soon.

Together, I feel these bots make a big difference to our IRC channel, and I hope you'll agree with me below. -- (talk) (contributions) 18:53, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Support (+1)

 * 1) --[[Image:Darth tom sig.png|100px]] (talk) (contributions) 18:53, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Support (+1)

 * 1) --[[Image:Darth tom sig.png|100px]] (talk) (contributions) 18:53, 15 October 2008 (UTC)