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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 > > > > > > This communication is a confidential and proprietary business > > communication. It is intended solely for the use of the designated > > recipient(s). If this communication is received in error, please contact > > the sender and delete this communication. > > >