Timeline for Where should WolfBot live?
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| Oct 7, 2016 at 1:11 | comment | added | WinEunuuchs2Unix |
@KazWolfe Yikes that looks like a github screen. I always get lost there.
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| Oct 7, 2016 at 0:28 | comment | added | Kaz Wolfe | @WinEunuuchs2Unix There's a link to it in the test room. Or just click the first link in this post. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 0:26 | comment | added | WinEunuuchs2Unix |
@KazWolfe Love to see the code of your chatbot / roombot / OneMinuteMintSnooperBot thingy. If it is less than <32K you can source block insert it into your question right? You claim to be a <good coder which I doubt but perhaps others can prune it right? Besides I've never seen a Wolf in Robot Silicone and it would be interesting :D
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| Sep 30, 2016 at 12:43 | answer | added | Elder Geek | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 29, 2016 at 17:17 | comment | added | Kaz Wolfe | @MarkKirby Privileged users (room owners or moderators) can add terms at any time. I can add tag searching in a new update if need be. | |
| Sep 29, 2016 at 17:03 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | I like it, anything that assists in finding off topic question, can only be good :) How extensive is the list of terms it looks for? Could you expand it to perhaps look for eol question by giving it eol versions like 13.10 or saucy, they are quite rare but hard to spot sometimes. | |
| Sep 29, 2016 at 16:56 | comment | added | Kaz Wolfe | @MarkKirby If you go back in the archives a bit, there are a few false positives, but they typically are the kind of "I tried it on mint, elementary, and Ubuntu" posts, which are still good to be flagged so they can be edited. The issue with things like "kali tools" has since been fixed because of a whitelist, so that should cut back on spam from the bot a bit, | |
| Sep 29, 2016 at 16:51 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | I did not know you had gone as far as testing :) Just looked in the room and it seems to be doing well, only one false positive I could see askubuntu.com/questions/831254/… but that is acceptable. As it only seems to find a few (less than I would of guessed), then I think @edwinksl is right and it would be fine in normal chat, seems no more intrusive than smoke-detector. | |
| Sep 29, 2016 at 16:42 | comment | added | edwinksl | @MarkKirby As far as I can tell, the volume of posts by the bot isn't much at all, so I don't think there is a risk of the bot flooding the chat. | |
| Sep 29, 2016 at 16:41 | comment | added | Kaz Wolfe | @MarkKirby This is the argument for putting it in Regulators (or keeping in the test room) and letting users come to it for data when they want. Ideally, then, we'd get more people into those rooms too. | |
| Sep 29, 2016 at 16:39 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | So, basically, this would just collect the questions and then present them in a chat room, to a group of users who have agreed they will read the post properly? That actually sounds quite good :) I can see the benefit of this, perhaps the best place to put it would be in its own dedicated room? So as not to flood chat, then we could just pop to the room and vote on what is there. +1 | |
| Sep 29, 2016 at 16:35 | comment | added | Kaz Wolfe | @MarkKirby This is an argument for people to actually read the post instead of just blindly doing stuff. The bot only acts as a flag to show there could be an issue. However, there is a way for privileged bot users to delete a post if it's invalid. | |
| Sep 29, 2016 at 12:47 | comment | added | Mark Kirby |
What happens when the bot makes a mistake? Not all question that say mint or eos are of topic and people make mistakes with this all the time. Would this not encourage mass closing of any post that dears to mention another OS? If people are already closing questions wrongly that mention these key words, surly having them presented by a bot is encouraging people to read the questions less than they do now, or am I missing something here?
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| Sep 28, 2016 at 14:54 | history | edited | Kaz Wolfe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 28, 2016 at 14:27 | comment | added | Kaz Wolfe | @terdon Right now, the bot monitors the incoming question feed for anything mentioning a blacklisted word (as set by a room owner), provided the bot also finds no whitelisted words. It also has a bookmark feature to quickly grab relevant links from a codeword. I have plans to add more, but I'm not sure what to add (if any). As for it being worth it, that's something that still needs to be decided. | |
| Sep 28, 2016 at 13:19 | history | edited | TheWanderer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 28, 2016 at 9:17 | comment | added | terdon Mod | Could you explain what the bot does in a bit more detail? Does it only look for things like "mint" and "elementary" and leave a message when it finds them or does it also have other functionality? Also, is this really worth it? The community is already pretty good at closing non-Ubuntu questions. One could even say it's a bit too good and will sometimes close questions that are perfectly on topic just for the crime of mentioning another distro. Is this really something we need? | |
| Sep 28, 2016 at 8:04 | comment | added | Kaz Wolfe | @Zanna There was another post (can't find the link right now) explicitly saying that such a thing would be better in Regulators. | |
| Sep 28, 2016 at 7:58 | answer | added | Edgy1 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 28, 2016 at 7:54 | history | edited | Kaz Wolfe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 28, 2016 at 7:37 | history | asked | Kaz Wolfe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |