Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-3076045-20150505180540/@comment-25464118-20150507002226

So I see there's some confusion going on which I'll go ahead and address.

The Rim of the Sky wrote: But only if this is available to sysops/staff, allowing access to everyone could cause abuse and vandalism. We should call it "Numidium", for reasons that should be easy to identify.

Yes, only certain users will be able to control the bot, so there's no worry of anyone messing something up with it. The username Numidium was already taken so I had to register the account under the name NumidiumBot.

Zippertrain85 wrote: Uh, what? First of all, Sajuuk did not use his bot! He had a bot account for other Wikis, and added some template to it's profile on this one, that is not "using" it. Please stop claiming he used it without permission.

I want to go ahead and clear this up because this seems to be the biggest reason for confusion. Your comment is half correct, Sajuuk did add a template to it's profile, this in and of itself does not mean the bot was used. Also, while Sajuuk did not edit under the SajuukBot account he did use a bot underneath his account. By using AWB with his username Sajuuk effectively turned his account into a bot, as can be seen by some of his recent edits. The definition used by Wikia is: A bot is a piece of software that makes automated edits on a wikia and also helps human users to make semi-automated edits.

Because Sajuuk had to manually approve every edit he was using a semi-automated bot. If that's allowed here, I don't know and I'll leave you guys to discuss, but in essence Super Sajuuk did indeed use a bot.

Zippertrain85 wrote: The double-standard comes in from the community for whatever reason is totally okay with Corey someone we hardly know, and is likely not well-versed on this Wiki using his bot here.

Like I explained earlier, the admins of the wiki would be the ones controlling the bot. Yes, I will have access to the bot's account but I will not be personally controlling the bot unless specifically asked by the admins.

SuperSajuuk wrote: And no, the wiki does not need a bot. A bot is controlled by a single operator, the very idea that a bot can sit in chat and privileged editors can simply spam commands at it is going to result in people abusing it to spam the chat, which is going to result in users being chat banned for no reason.

In order to prevent spamming of the chat I will be setting up a control panel for the bot. It will not be logging into chat, instead the admins of the wiki will login to my website and have access to the control panel there. The reason of "users will spam the bot" is now void, so no need to worry about that.

Hopefully this will clear up some of the confusion orbiting this conversation. If you have any more questions about the bot feel free to leave them in this thread or on my talk page.

Cheers!

Cörey «Cörey» 00:22, May 7, 2015 (UTC)