I've usually just don't bother with them, but lately I got complaints about this specific bot, and the bot operator neglect doing anything with the problem. That is why I raise the issue, as there are no other forum where users from one project can make a complaint about misbehaving users on another project.
Given the response from the bot operator I would say I don't have a good feeling about this "welcome" at all. It is like those scam emails where you are greeted in full name. It is creepy… On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Vi to <vituzzu.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > I can estimate the number of welcomes I received to roughly 300, most of > these languages I cannot even copypaste from. > While these messages are useless for sure I don't see any reason to be > bothered of them. > > Vito > > 2017-12-29 10:25 GMT+01:00 K. Peachey <p858sn...@gmail.com>: > > > Have you asked the user how the finding the users? > > Have you considered other steps than just jumping to mailing list? > > Where are the complaints from the other users to show this is a long > > running issue? > > > > On 29 December 2017 at 19:20, John Erling Blad <jeb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Users on other projects are complaining about the welcome messages at > > > arwiki. A bot at that project are welcoming people that has no activity > > at > > > that project at all. The bot operator claims the activity is valid, > but I > > > can't see that this is a well-behaving bot at all.[1] > > > > > > I suspect the bot is welcoming every user it can find, but using user > > > accounts from central login and not users that has local contributions > at > > > arwiki. > > > > > > Can someone shut down the bot until the user fix the spam problem. > > > > > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Meno25#Welcome_messages > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
