Fun with bots

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by funkychinaman

If he's blocked, he won't get a chance to explain himself. I don't think he's on the forum.

It's only temporary. I'm afraid that if he is running a bot, it may edit more pages. He can explain himself in 2 weeks.

[Evil Tim]

Originally Posted by MT2008

It's only temporary. I'm afraid that if he is running a bot, it may edit more pages. He can explain himself in 2 weeks.

But you banned him for a month.

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by Evil Tim

But you banned him for a month.

Oops, forgot that it was that long...I just wanted to temp-ban him, but didn't pay much attention to how long.

[Excalibur]

I'm just wondering how lazy this guy has to be to need a bot to remove spaces.

[Jcordell]

Well he's banned. Maybe he'll just stay gone when the month is over. If not and he returns to his old ways - well i guess we'll cross that bridge if we come to it.

[Evil Tim]

Well, the original purpose of the bot was pretty sound (it does automatic spellchecking, and automating basic fixes to hundreds of articles rather than doing it by hand is a good idea), the problem is you can't trust a few lines of code to deal with the structure of a page. And that he shouldn't have started running a mass-editing bot without consulting people about what it should be editing.

[Rockwolf66]

So basically we have him banned for

A: Makeing major changes without asking the rest of the Wiki.

B: useing a bot that isn't set up for the needs of the forum thus doing alot of potential damage.