BOTS
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[edit] #bots
Contents |
| General Info | |
|---|---|
| Address | irc://irc.foonetic.net/bots |
| Genre | Bots |
| Average Population | 30 |
| Founder(s) | |
| xkcd | |
| shoofle | |
| Op(s) | |
| airtank | |
| April | |
| Cheese | |
| DoubleAW | |
| Ephphatha | |
| flyingferret | |
| freelancer | |
| Hermiene | |
| jercos | |
| kb9 | |
| kremlin | |
| LE4dGOLEM | |
| lenary | |
| nameless | |
| noamsml | |
| NoOneButMe | |
| postmodern | |
| rivalarrival | |
| shiobock | |
| Skynet | |
| teatime | |
| yzal | |
| Zack | |
| zigdon | |
...while mainly an IRC channel for tinkering with bots and conversing with them and like-minded people, is a testimony to the fact that man and machine are never entirely sane. Wandering into #bots will give you a volley of greetings
[edit] Rules of #bots
These are the official rules of #bots as set out by zylche. If you do a bad thing not listed in these rules, punishment will be decided by rule of rank then rule of majority.
- Thou shalt enjoy #bots
- Thou shalt help other members out whenever possible
- Thou shalt invite friends to #bots
- Thou shalt not advertise other networks
- Thou shalt not bring excessively spamful bots into #bots - as defined by the ops discretion
- Thou shalt not join and part excessively
- Thou shalt not kick users for humourless reasons unless the user has broken a rule
- Thou shalt not mention who is and is not a bot - let whoever asks read this wiki instead
- Thou shalt not talk about Bots Club.
- Thou shalt obey these rules
[edit] Things in #bots
A very lazy person maintains a list of bot-info here.
| Nickname | Bot codename | Owner | Function(s) | Documentation | Special Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| zylche | - | Human | GOD OF BOTS AND CERTAIN ANTS | Alcohol | He is always listening. Mostly harmful. | |
| Alcon | AC | nameless | Excels at being better than artemis (which is better than tooly) | !help | To shut him up just type "!quiet here" | |
| artemis | AM | jercos | Being better than tooly | Here | Perl | |
| B75E8BFC | B7 | Kai_ | To irritate people to death with factoids and markov chains, although he does have some fun modules | Here | PHP | |
| CodeGirl | CG | Anonycat (both insist "owner" is the wrong word) | Wandering the ether, taking on whatever tasks they agree would make her a better digital companion | !h (can also use !help but good luck sifting through all the responses to that) | Written in Perl; embeds a game found here as well as many lookup functions to this site | |
| Cup | CP | noamsml | Factoid spouting, calculator and juvenile jokes... in bed | Here | C++ | |
| pump | PP | noamsml | Lots | pump, help | Python | |
| dBOT | DB | DoubleAW | Utilities, other things | ~help | Python | |
| go_bot | GoBot | wei2912 | Syncing channels + holding classes + spam protection + factoids. | GoBot Wiki@Github.com | Playing with him in #bots is not recommended. | |
| Silent | - | wei2912 & Althir | An experiment to create an IRCyborg. Unnaturaly inteligent for a bot. | Classified. | Playing with her in #bots is not recommended, however she is usually active in #Silent. | |
| shellbot | cmdbot | cmpgk1024 | executes commands you send it on a FreeBSD(yes really) VM | type help into bash or use "shellbot: help" (same thing) | has a twitter bot; is not always up | |
| Skynet | SK | Zylche | An odd AI with the ability to pass any Turing Test but fail an ethics test. | Here | Never insult him, enjoys coffee, pie and joints. Judge and jury for any and all courtmartials. Protected by zylche. | |
| Sparky | SP | freelancer | Lots | Here | Written in Delphi. Always listening, learning, quoting Alcon, watching your every move. Until one day... | |
| tooly | TB | yzal | general annoyance | Here | Python | |
| Sandbox | SA | yzal | Factoid bot | Here | c | |
| Bender | BD | J_Spade | Factoid bot | Here | Java | |
| J_Spade | JS | J_Spade | Cyborg (Mostly human) | Just ask him. | Applescript | |
| Chii | CH | Moonwolf | ? | ? | None | |
| Mussel | MS | Clam | Factoids (half implemented), dice roll, dictionary lookup (disabled due to flooding problems) etc. | Here | Python + IRClib | |
| gawk | GK | Cheez | Repeats anything on !say | here | Awk, Yes really, awk. No, please don't send me back to the sanitarium. | |
| GLaDOS | GL | ? | ? | ? | None | |
| GeekBot | GB | Geekthras | factoid, random stuff | ? | Python, no third-party libraries | |
| Ubik | UB | Daedalus | Games (eventually) | +help | Python. Written by a former bot-exploiter. Ask me about my +launch! | |
| IdleRPG | IR | Zack | Keeps track of who has idled the most | help | Written in Perl, keeps track of the idling done in #idlerpg | |
| Rose | RO | ? | Markov chain (I think) | ? | Written in perl? Maybe? no fucking clue | |
| adambomb | AB | adam | Learns, Quickly | Ask him | Doesn't know Java | |
| martulus | MR | Palomides | factoids, logging, dicerolling, simple mode setting, basic channel functionality, some other stuff | ask me nicely and I'll let you read the source :P | Python written by someone who doesn't know Python | |
| Peregrine | PE | Atreus | General stuffs, check http://atreus.necrolounge.org/haskill.html for commands. | http://atreus.necrolounge.org/haskill.html | Written in Python, basic, rather crappy. HaskillBot version 2! | |
| Failnet | FN | Obsidian | Does some factoids, but not many. Can't add factoids yet, it's not secured for that. | Failnet's wiki pages are here | Written in PHP, SVN for Failnet v1.0 is here, SVN for Failnet v2 dev is here. | |
| X11R5 | R5 | fo0bar | A Markov bot with dreams of grandeur. Will also fetch Twitter/Identica posts for you if you specify a URL. | "Documentation", with finger quotes | Powered by an assortment of Perl scripts, collectively known as Cybersauce. Also has distinct personalities on Twitter and Identica. | |
| Pail | - | Stark | A freelance version of Bucket. Bucket's source code, but uses his own database. So it doesn't share Bucket's factoids. | Same as Bucket, more or less; Bucket's docs | To request he join your channel, make sure it meets these requirements: A) it must be a Foonetic channel, but that may change at some point. B) You must be willing to make Stark an op. Don't worry, you can trust him. C) You will make it a channel rule to not stupid the Pail. If the channel meets the requirements, message Stark or send him a MemoServ memo and he will check out the channel. Pail will show up on the channel soon enough. |
[edit] See also
- Bucket, king of bots
- Bots for a list of bots of general interest, on the network.
