Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5732937-20130524065621/@comment-71.197.167.197-20130620220514

AquaFlare wrote: Okay so I'm just gonna get staright to the point. This wiki needs a chatbot.

Firstly, what is a Chatbot?

A chatbot is basicly a bot that looks over the chat and logs down what was written in specific time periods. E.G.: Every hour, the bot will log down what has been said for future referance.

This could be pretty handy when it comes to resolving arguments, or perhaps you just want to look over a specifc chat and re-read it for the lulz.

Well thats great and all but could I go into more detail? Sure.

Like I said the chatbot can log down what is happening during chat for a specific time period. This can be very handy is resolving problems/settling disputes/seeing who is a trouble maker, ECT.

Here is an example; Let's say the chat has only 2 users in it (for the sake of the example, we will call them users X and Y). In the chat, X is harrasing Y, despite Y telling X to stop. Eventually Y leaves as well as X leaving no trace of the convosation to anyone. The next day, Y makes a complaint to a Chat Mod/Admin, however with the lack of evidence said Chat Mod/Admin cannot ban X, despite Y's claims.

That is where the Chatbot comes in. Using the logging feature of the Bot, the Chat Mod/Admin can check the logs and see exactly what went on.

This is just one of the many uses that the ChatBot can be used for.

Now this is where you all come in, I need you users to simply state whether you think the Chat Bot is a good idea. Or if you don't think it is a good idea, simple as that.

-Sigh-

Privacy and freedom of use are issues that are always hard to resolve.