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+1 for renaming @poledance to @rsinger. On Friday, January 18, 2013, Tim Donohue wrote: > FWIW, there are a few zoia commands I've noticed that could come across as > sexist (especially if you see Zoia as being a "female" bot). > > I don't think they are used that frequently, but I have seen: > > @poledance (have zoia display a poledancer) > @euph (have zoia respond in a euphemism) > > This isn't meant to spoil any of the fun of having zoia around. For the > most part, I don't take offense to zoia. But, I do find zoia annoying / > noisy (which is why I'm rarely in code4lib IRC). Though there are some > useful / helpful zoia commands in there. > > I like Jon Gorman's suggestion of having a friendly, helpful bot and a > wise-cracking one. That way, those of us annoyed by the ongoing > wise-cracking can ignore it, while still having access to the helpful > stuff. (And it may be easier to turn off the wise-cracking parts during the > conference if desired.) > > - Tim > > On 1/18/2013 10:26 AM, Karen Coyle wrote: > >> Actually, I find the "playing" with Zoia itself offensive. As per my >> response to my own message. >> >> It objectifies women. Treats them as play-things. Makes me very >> uncomfortable. If we want to have an information bot, perhaps like the >> one used by W3C which takes minutes for meetings (Zakim, I believe it >> is), that seems reasonable. But to have a "play-thing" that is gendered >> is a really, really bad idea. In fact, to have a "play-thing" of any >> kind on the channel might not be a good idea. I know that some folks >> find it fun, but it is akin to the locker-room shenanigans (at least as >> I experience it), and it's a HUGE in-joke that makes it obvious to >> anyone new that they aren't "in". >> >> kc >> >