Is another possibility is for Zoia to be opt-in rather than opt-out?
kc
On 1/17/13 12:57 PM, Devon wrote:
Zoia can also be completely muted per user. Could a pointer to '/ignore'
docs be included in the new herald?
/dev
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Michael B. Klein <[email protected]> wrote:
I agree with the esteemed neckbeard from Pennsylvania. But I would also be
in favor of muting the snarfer-class plugins, especially @dunno. I've been
thinking for a while that it might be time to change zoia's alert character
from @ to something that's not (now) universally recognized as a
reply/attention character, which results in more unintentional channel spam
than any of the others.
I think we can also lower zoia's "more" threshold so that each individual
response has a shorter maximum length, but that's something that's better
resolved by better participant behavior, not code.
Michael
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Michael J. Giarlo <
[email protected]> wrote:
At the risk of getting shouted down in public (wouldn't be the first
time!), let me just put this out there: perhaps instead of, like,
whipping
up a Doodle poll for us all to vote on which plugins get temporarily
disabled and which ones don't, how about we have a few folks volunteer to
gently ask that folks be mindful of what they are asking zoia to do.
Heck,
we can even reflect that in the topic, and make an announcement from the
podium.
We already ask that channel registrants be mindful of what they say; is
it
much more to ask that that include which zoia plugins they call?
-Mike
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Ross Singer <[email protected]>
wrote:
I'd be loathe to gag @tdih, because it's educational and only gets
called
once or twice a day, but that's me.
@blockparty is pretty spammy, as is @alpha
Also @urbandict is probably the most offensive command.
-Ross.
On Jan 17, 2013, at 3:12 PM, Adam Wead <[email protected]> wrote:
At the risk of opening a can 'o worms, there are others that utilize
the
invective:
@habla
@ana
@ana can sometimes return offensive phrases. Sadly, it's one of the
channel's favorites, so I'm reluctant to put it on the (temporary)
chopping
block.
…adam
On Jan 17, 2013, at 2:35 PM, Bill Dueber <[email protected]> wrote:
I'd like to propose that zoia (the IRC bot that provides help and
entertainment in the #code4lib IRC channel) have some of its normal
plugins
disabled during conf. With three or four times as many people online
during
conference, things can get out of hand.
Lots of zoia plugins can be useful during conference; I'm mostly
thinking
of stuff whose utility is suspect and whose output covers several
lines.
Some examples:
- @mf
- @cast
- @tdih
- @sing
The goal, really, is to try and turn the firehose that the IRC
channel
becomes into something at least plausibly manageable in realtime.
I can also make a case for things that newbies will just find
confusing
(chef, takify, etc.) or offensive (@forecast, @mf again) but I'll
let
others potentially make that case.
-Bill-
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