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Re: Spam Bots and Trolls

 

Le mercredi 08 septembre 2010 à 21:22 +0100, Phill Whiteside a écrit :
> 
> I know I've written about this before, but as Lubuntu gains more users
> there will come a day when the IRC channel is a target of such
> attacks. 
> 
> At present there are 3 people with OP status, we really could do with
> a few more. Having been chatting to Andrew at the ubuntu-youth area,
> he is putting together something for the spam-bots, which I attach. As
> for dealing with
> trolls, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/What_is_a_troll%3F has a decent
> definition of what they are etc. 
> 
> We may need another bot, called supybot for the spam bots, I would be
> happy to liase with Andrew on #ubuntu-youth to see how they are
> getting along with it before I'd propose its addition to the #lubuntu
> channel. I'm also chatting to the people on #ubuntu-beginners about
> their methods. 

Do other channels like #ubuntu-beginners have such spam problem ? I
think maybe for now, only a few people with OP rights should be enough.
If we have such problems in the futur, we could plan to add a bot for
this.

Regards,
Julien Lavergne




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