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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: Useless Bots
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.122736.5087@aston.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 12:27:36 GMT
- References: <1992Jul26.203510.17987@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
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- asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...) writes:
- : Personally I think channel opping bots are useless. What is the point?
- : Having a robot sit on a channel and only op certain people? Now
- : that is what I call elitst. I've had so many problems$with channel opping
- : bots in the past. This is one of the reasons I don't like them. Let's
- : give a current exmaple. #wicca, has a channel opping bot, now$the original
- : creators of this channel (regular members) Are not even opped by this bot
- : anymore. And some new person has taken over the channel and imposed
- : all these 'rules' (once again, very elitist) . I told them the
- : best solution is to create a new channel. They will probably do that
- : but still. What gives them the right to put a robot on a channel
- : and have it only op certain people?
- : Especially when they do vanity ops such as
- : /mode #channel +ooo sameperson sameperson sameperson
- Exactly
- This sort of command makes a channel very noisy.
- (both from the mode changes themselves and also due to people loosing the
- thread of what they were saying)
- This command is also propergated to every server on IRC. (mode changes are
- broadcast rather than routed)
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