Hopebot

Hoooopebot, your mother's still a toaster!  

Heh.. that's probably true.

Added some additional features today.

- Added "gcha" for users who want to google search all computer hope pages.
- Added convert to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit and visa-versa
- Can do match calculations and conversions such as how many bytes in a gigabyte, etc. (from Zero)

Hopefully later today, since I still haven't gone to sleep yet (been catching up after I've been out of town);  I plan on adding a new feature that will allow users to report any abuse that's happening in the channel.

I hope this will help keep order in the chat, while maintaining the new setup with no ops. Below is my rough draft of what I've got running in my head. Feel free to add any comments.

You: report <user>

hopebot: <user> <host info> has been reported.

Hopebot will then send a text message to me on my cell phone and give me a popup on my computer allowing me to take care of it ASAP.

<If user gets multiple reports kick/ban user>

[Global Moderator]

I think it would be much more efficient that, if perhaps more than one users with Voice status reports the same use within XX minutes, the user is kicked.
It would be much more effective for dealing with those lifeless trolls.

[CH Queen]

That's a very good Idea carbon.

Good for keeping out trolls.

I think it would be much more efficient that, if perhaps more than one users with Voice status reports the same use within XX minutes, the user is kicked.
It would be much more effective for dealing with those lifeless trolls.

Agreed. Added to suggestion. I'll make it so any user regardless of voice status can do this, to keep with the theme of all users remaining the same.

[Global Moderator]

Something has happened. Computerhope and Hopebot have been disconnected, and it appears Hopebot has come on as tHopeBot.
He is without any 'superpowers'. Just thought you should know that the channel is unprotected.

[CH Queen]

Yes, he warns 3 times and then goes back to warning from 1 to 3, it's like a cycle, and he does not actually Kick. He just only keeps warning.

[Global Moderator]

On another note, the 'look up' and 'search' terms opening google search is getting....annoying.... I think simply 'Google <text>' would suffice.

<Carbonk>   search within yourself, SignedAdam
<tHopeBot>   Carbon: http://cgi.ebay.com/LONGEST-YARD-Prop-HELMET-DVD-SIGNED-Adam-Sandler-COA-_W0QQitemZ370184430782QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20090407?IMSfp=TL090407159001r25454

LOL

Fixed. Believe it was caused because server reset and/or my connection was lost when attempting to log back in there was already a hopebot logged in causing him to use backup name of thopebot.

Also fixed the "spell" issue.

[Moderator]

Fixed. Believe it was caused because server reset and/or my connection was lost when attempting to log back in there was already a hopebot logged in causing him to use backup name of thopebot.

Also fixed the "spell" issue.

If Hopebot is a registered nickname (which, it should be), add this to its startup script to fix the duplicate username issue:

/nickserv ghost USERNAME PASSSWORD

For more help, type /nickserv help ghost

It kills anyone attempting to use the same nickname, or "Ghost" names which happen when users loose their connections and dont properly disconnect.

Hopebot bans:

It still gives the trolls the upper hand until 3 user's get together and ban them. I'm sure you can log the efforts of Bans by the users in case its abused but that adds to the confusion and work needed to manage this effort. Allowing anyone to group ban any user which will probably include voiced users is a short coming.

Voiced users should have the ability to act with expediency and be promoted to half ops. Thus ending anyone from , kicking other ops or de-oping and still maintaining control of trolls.

Kicks can be used as guest warnings as before. Quite bans may be used for mild guest offenders and lifted by the operator, but either can Not be used against another operator and is normally blocked from doing so with half ops.

All Channel bans then should be registered in a forum post by the banner under a special heading with a reason why and with a log of what happened so it can be reviewed by Nathan saving him time and effort managing. ALL complete channel Bans should ONLY be lifted by Nathan to avoid confusion.

just my opinion edited...

Some time ago, the proposal to do 'gang bans' was brought up, and I debunked it then.

I think that post has been deleted.

Hopebot bans:

It still gives the trolls the upper hand until 3 user's get together and ban them.

Correct.

I'm sure you can log the efforts of Bans by the users in case its abused but that adds to the confusion and work needed to manage this effort. Allowing anyone to group ban any user which will probably include voiced users is a short coming.

Correct again, twice.

Voiced users should have to ability to act with expediency

Regarding expediency -  correct.

and be promoted to half ops.

You need to explain why half ops vs. ops.
(In your previous post about half ops, it was not explained there either)

All bans then should be registered in a forum post by the banner under a special heading with a reason why and with a log of what happened so it can be reviewed by Nathan saving him time and effort managing.

How sad, if it must be done this way.

Bans should only be lifted by Nathan to avoid confusion.

This is in regards to bans placed by others, right?   Not one's own bans.
Rarely did I ever want to ban someone permanently or long term.  I certainly wouldn't  want to be bothering Nathan to take off a ban that I entered.


All along, common sense would dictate that one should not remove another's ban -  if nothing else without discussing it first.

To do so, is to promote chaos,   which is exactly what some people were doing.    When they were doing such stuff, I could not help but wonder how loud the screaming and whining would be, if someone else had unilaterally just removed one of THEIR bans.     

It is just stupid to go around, undoing what someone else has done, just because one feels like it.   It should be discussed, first.

It is a shame that apparently it has to be spelled out, and probably the way you have worded it, is what we are down to -  that bans other than one's own,  can only be removed by Nathan.   

just my opinion...

If Hopebot is a registered nickname (which, it should be), add this to its startup script to fix the duplicate username issue:

/nickserv ghost USERNAME PASSSWORD

For more help, type /nickserv help ghost

It kills anyone attempting to use the same nickname, or "Ghost" names which happen when users loose their connections and dont properly disconnect.

Good idea this has been implemented.

[Moderator]

- Added convert to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit and visa-versa
- Can do match calculations and conversions such as how many bytes in a gigabyte, etc. (from Zero)

How do these commands work?

Found on first post.

Convert xxC/F = Where xx is a temperature to convert, e.g. converting 40C to F.
x +/* y = Pretty much any possible math formula should work (thanks to Zero). e.g. 2 + 2.
xxxx = Any natural language conversion should be possible (thanks to what was done with Zero). For example, asking a question like: how many bytes in a gigabyte or how many bytes in 10 gigabytes should be able to display values for.

Because the math function had issues this is disabled at this time but other should work fine.