I agree with the esteemed neckbeard from Pennsylvania. But I would also be
in favor of muting the snarfer-class plugins, especially @dunno. I've been
thinking for a while that it might be time to change zoia's alert character
from @ to something that's not (now) universally recognized as a
reply/attention character, which results in more unintentional channel spam
than any of the others.

I think we can also lower zoia's "more" threshold so that each individual
response has a shorter maximum length, but that's something that's better
resolved by better participant behavior, not code.

Michael


On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Michael J. Giarlo <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> At the risk of getting shouted down in public (wouldn't be the first
> time!), let me just put this out there: perhaps instead of, like, whipping
> up a Doodle poll for us all to vote on which plugins get temporarily
> disabled and which ones don't, how about we have a few folks volunteer to
> gently ask that folks be mindful of what they are asking zoia to do.  Heck,
> we can even reflect that in the topic, and make an announcement from the
> podium.
>
> We already ask that channel registrants be mindful of what they say; is it
> much more to ask that that include which zoia plugins they call?
>
> -Mike
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Ross Singer <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > I'd be loathe to gag @tdih, because it's educational and only gets called
> > once or twice a day, but that's me.
> >
> > @blockparty is pretty spammy, as is @alpha
> >
> > Also @urbandict is probably the most offensive command.
> >
> > -Ross.
> >
> > On Jan 17, 2013, at 3:12 PM, Adam Wead <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > At the risk of opening a can 'o worms, there are others that utilize
> the
> > invective:
> > >
> > > @habla
> > > @ana
> > >
> > > @ana can sometimes return offensive phrases.  Sadly, it's one of the
> > channel's favorites, so I'm reluctant to put it on the (temporary)
> chopping
> > block.
> > >
> > > …adam
> > >
> > > On Jan 17, 2013, at 2:35 PM, Bill Dueber <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > >> I'd like to propose that zoia (the IRC bot that provides help and
> > >> entertainment in the #code4lib IRC channel) have some of its normal
> > plugins
> > >> disabled during conf. With three or four times as many people online
> > during
> > >> conference, things can get out of hand.
> > >>
> > >> Lots of zoia plugins can be useful during conference; I'm mostly
> > thinking
> > >> of stuff whose utility is suspect and whose output covers several
> lines.
> > >> Some examples:
> > >>
> > >>  - @mf
> > >>  - @cast
> > >>  - @tdih
> > >>  - @sing
> > >>
> > >> The goal, really, is to try and turn the firehose that the IRC channel
> > >> becomes into something at least plausibly manageable in realtime.
> > >>
> > >> I can also make a case for things that newbies will just find
> confusing
> > >> (chef, takify, etc.) or offensive (@forecast, @mf again) but I'll let
> > >> others potentially make that case.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> -Bill-
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Bill Dueber
> > >> Library Systems Programmer
> > >> University of Michigan Library
> > >
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