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Old 04-18-2012, 07:02 PM
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I'm just wondering how lazy this guy has to be to need a bot to remove spaces.
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Old 04-20-2012, 04:33 PM
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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.
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Old 04-20-2012, 05:02 PM
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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.
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Old 04-20-2012, 08:57 PM
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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.
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Old 04-20-2012, 11:49 PM
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Sometimes I wish we aren't a wiki site where others can come in and freely register and do whatever they want
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Old 04-21-2012, 02:41 AM
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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.
I think it's more of using a bot to make indiscriminate changes. Theoretically, isn't the point of a wiki peer editing?
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