Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5732937-20130524065621/@comment-6500074-20130526124101

I support a chat-bot. People that argue about privacy, it isn't like whoever 'hosts' the chatbot will read through all your messages. If you worry about your privacy, what are you doing on the chat, anyways? The chatbot could simply periodically write into a file all the contents of a chat, and when needed the host can retrieve it and look through it. The whole point of having a bot is for future reference, and I'd be guessing it wouldn't be available for the entire world to see.

MSN Messenger, Skype, and many other chatting software will keep local copies of your conversations with others. This will be no different, except that it is a bot that keeps this record and noone will be able to see it unless the host wants them to. There is no reason to complain about this, really, seeing that if you don't mention anything overly offensive to the point of banning you have nothing to hide.

I'm guessing that those that are against this are influenced by fear that their words could be used against them, or a sense of insecurity that their words could be used for anything. I'm sure whoever hosts such a bot will be voted for and have a certain amount of responsibility.

If the bot is to be hosted on a remote server, on the other hand, we may have security issues. I'm guessing this isn't the case though.

Oh, and I'd love to try to make such a bot, though I'm not sure if I can seeing that it goes through your browser... I'll do some research.