Bot giving WML advice.

[Frogger5]

About a year ago from now I started a thread on the Stencyl forums about Wesnoth UMC advice. A bot posted this.
http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.ph ... u=13308535
....I mean... what the hell? How could this turn up?

[Iris]

It probably collects information from multiple websites — or asks a search engine such as Google for it — and reposts fragments in similar topics so it goes unnoticed to the most unexperienced moderators.

EDIT: Zarel didn't like my rhetorical use of “fragment.”

[Zarel]

Actually, it doesn't report fragments. It just googles some of your post text, and copy/pastes whichever forum post it finds that looks most like the answer to what you're looking for, and adds ads tot he bottom. Pretty neat, actually. If your users tend to ask questions that have already been answered because they're too lazy to search, these bots could help more than they hurt.

[Anonymissimus]

I'm a bot too and none of you ever noticed. How could I post in wml workshop all around the clock anyway ?

It's some of zookeepers post:
http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php ... f+#p355866

[Jetrel]

200012AD: THE CRUCIFER CORTEX AWAITS.

[Dunno]

one day we won't be able to divide bots from humans. I mean, how can you prove that you are human, and not a very advanced bot?

[Gambit]

one day we won't be able to divide bots from humans. I mean, how can you prove that you are human, and not a very advanced bot?

So many ways to answer this... I'm going with:
47. We cut you open.

But who says robots aren't alive? (Starts at 19:08:07)

[Dunno]

one day we won't be able to divide bots from humans. I mean, how can you prove that you are human, and not a very advanced bot?

So many ways to answer this... I'm going with:
47. We cut you open.

I meant on the forum

[Gambit]

Oh well then:
2. Captcha
(fun sucker)

[Zerovirus]

Or we could troll the account in question and see if the response is logical or if a flamewar starts.

[pauxlo]

If the bot is helpful enough, there is no reason not to give it the same rights as any human contributor.
If the bot is annoying enough, there is no reason not to treat it like any human troll.

I don't see the problem.

[Iris]

Spambots are spambots. I don't care what they post if they are going to edit it with hidden links or add stupid links to their signatures.

So no, there's no reason not to treat spambots as what they are.

[PeterPorty]

Are you saying zookeeper is just an uber bot? Oh well. OTOH, that bot's post was more helpful than anything I've ever posted :/

[Gambit]

Are you saying zookeeper is just an uber bot? Oh well. OTOH, that bot's post was more helpful than anything I've ever posted :/

Does zookeeper fill his signature and posts with advertisements?

[Zarel]

i.e. Not all bots are spambots.

If we wrote a legitimate bot designed to give WML advice, and didn't use it to spam, it probably wouldn't get deleted on sight.