Board Thread:Ask the Staff/@comment-5518179-20151226191600/@comment-26901407-20151227021933

Akrivus wrote: Black Pearl 666 wrote: No. We have more mods than we ever have had in the past. We don't need bots. #DownW/Holly #BotHatersCult ##'sSuck. Did you not read that I want this to specifically be a mod tool and not a mod? You seem so hateful of technology, that's always your point, but yet you're using technology yourself? Please, log chat for me, that's right, stay on chat, and every hour or before your buffer starts wiping itself to keep your browser's RAM afloat, copy and paste the chat, and take the time to format so for each line it works.

You're like a writer who'd rather rewrite his books millions of times by hand rather than use a printer because you're scared the printer is going to come alive at three in the morning to kill you.

But then again, maybe I'm being too rational and you're just joking, so I must apologize if that is the case. I would hope that we've had this conversation enough to know which part is the joke and which isn't. Honestly, I'm at a point where I hardly visit anymore due to ever increasing strains from work and real life obligations, I only really visit for a few minutes every few days to check up on people and see how their doing. That's it. I just felt obligated to make at least one small post in fun, for all the good times we used to have in the past.....

Read everything before commenting. This isn't a hate speech, merely a fully written view of how I in general feel towards scripts, bots, or machines whose purpose is to do much of anything besides data entry or logging.

And I don't really hate technology. Just bot's. And the issue isn't entirely the bot. It's a simple, inarguable fact that centers around the argument of inequality and enforced action. At first, when she held kicking and banning powers, I was against Holly's existance because her very existance meant that a tool existed which would attack you based on a preset, small number of variables and which could not think, react, or judge if a action was right or wrong despite any arguments one may have over context. It lacked(and still does, all machines, bots, or scripts do)that quintessential thing we call free thought. Choice. It acts based on how it was programmed to act. Without thought or care, without appeal or judgement. It's a thoughtless, soulless, and unfeeling thing doing what its told.The absolute worst possible idea to give any form of moderation, any power to a machine for these very reasons. Your left with a person who very well may not have broken any rules and yet unable to appeal. Yes, I realize that this argument is applicable to every script or bot that moderates chatrooms in existance. Yes, I know it's not exclusive to you. But thats the point. Its not deliberate. Its not some ignorant, sad, pathetic, ingrained hatred built on the very forefront of my mind. Its just simple forethought, and the wisdom to see where this type of thinking leads.

Yes, I did indeed read everything you wrote above. And I realize you no longer (nor have you for some time now) wanted Holly to have the ability to moderate chat. For the reason that you really only want Holly for chat logging purposes, and if that was her only duty, I wouldn't mind. Hell, If it weren't for the fact that the public can see your ban record and their permanent and not removable, I would say let the bot have even those powers back. If only because you could have them removed later.

I don't hate you Akrivus. I don't even hate Holly. I hate the idea of what Holly used to be.

Of course, I could go into much more detail, but I think we've said everything that needs to be said on this topic. Consider the matter closed Akrivus. I won't be responding to any posts about Holly again. I don't really visit the wiki as it is enough for it to matter to me either way.

Oh and Akrivus? I was joking. Figured it would be extremely obvious after ""##'sSuck"".