Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24821496-20151028135720

I have been thinking about this recently, and discussed this with several members. As we have grown fairly active recently, we may want to get a chat bot to be on the chatroom.

The idea of a chat bot is to prevent people from spamming if there is no staff available to kick (or ban) them, and also to log the chat. Logging the chat will stop the possibility of someone editing a picture to make someone say something that they didn't. The log itself will most likely be kept available only to staff members to review should the need arise. While there is usually staff on, we can't guarantee that someone will be on every minute of every day.

The bot is not meant to be a "big brother" watching over you. Action will only be taken if something happens and it's brought to the staff's attention. People get into arguments with each other, sure. The line would be somewhere farther down than that.

Talk about what you think about having a bot in the chat in this thread. If you want one, talk about some of the things you would like it to be able to do (kick on spamming or ban on spamming). If you don't want one, state your reason why and any concerns you have. 