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@mf just returns a large ASCII image of a hand "flicking the bird" (or
what do the kids call it nowadays?) That is, sticking up its middle
finger.

Kevin

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'm looking at the supybot code in c4l's github and don't see @mf here in
> any of the three folders. Can you say what it does?
>
> Thanks,
> kc
>
>
>
> On 1/18/13 11:46 AM, Kevin S. Clarke wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is it the plugins themselves or the content? I suspect that some plugins
>>> lend themselves to more joking around and possible inappropriateness, but
>>> I'm not sure that it's "plugin" problem, perhaps its a "user error."
>>
>> I seem to be in a talkative mood today.
>>
>> I'd like to make the distinction between @mf which will return the
>> same result every time and @ana (an anagram plugin) which will
>> sometimes return something offensive.  When you use @mf you know
>> you're doing something which some might find offensive.  When you use
>> @ana most of what you get isn't offensive (it is more of a case of bad
>> luck when you get something that is... and people have dealt with
>> this, in the past, in different ways; one of which is by decrementing
>> the bot when something offensive is said (to express disagreement with
>> the statement that their interaction produced)).
>>
>> On the first case, @mf... is it the plugin or is it the person?  Yes,
>> guns don't kill people... people kill people.  That still doesn't stop
>> me from wanting to pass gun laws though.
>>
>> In the case of @ana... that seems pretty clearly a "plugin problem" to
>> me, and one that's fixable by changing the plugin.
>>
>> As always, just my two cents...
>>
>> Kevin
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