We could call it the DP ServBot Press Room. Maybe we can put a jaunty 6-bit press hat on him?Originally Posted by Frankie_Says_Relax
We could call it the DP ServBot Press Room. Maybe we can put a jaunty 6-bit press hat on him?
put it in its own section. let it create its own news paper like weekly thread of interesting articles it finds. "Digital Press Times".
It brings up some interesting topics, but I also think it relegates them to being more of a comment section than a discussion, because its point of origin is from outside of the forum, with no stake in it - encouraging us to react rather than interact. Part of the draw of forums is that they develop their own quirks, their own attitudes, their own identity. Disabling ServBot might foster more of that within Modern Gaming.
We could also sandbox it in its own forum as a few have suggested, but to me that seems like another level of fragmentation with minimal benefit. If anything I think we should trim away the excess and consolidate, and grow the community from that.
I would also support getting rid of it, as I feel a topic generated by a real person would spur more discussion rather than one done by a bot. Like Oobgarm said, playing "beat the Servbot" sucks.
If the site had a dedicated and active news reporte I'd say to drop the ServBot but this site doesn't so my vote would be to keep it the way it is.
Not all of the stories that it reports on interests me but geez, is it really that hard to ignore a post that you aren't interested in?
Last edited by Griking; 04-16-2012 at 09:04 PM.
Throwing in another vote in favor of retirement. I'll agree that it posts a gem every now and then, but with a community as large as DP, most modern gaming news worth discussing will eventually find its way here.
If there is any one thing this userbase can't do, it's ignore things that are better left ignored.
I think that the Bot serves a great purpose here. Just look at the Modern forum and you'll see that most new posts come from the Bot. If he were taken away then that would eliminate most of the new posts and pretty much kill the section.
Or, possibly, encourage people to post more. Mostly news stories, I'd assume. Eventually, someone will propose a bot to post all the news stories for us. It will be named Chaos, so people know they're stuck in a time-loop.
I've throttled down the DP ServBot to only post at most two stories per day per feed. Let's see how everyone likes this lower setting. After a few days to get used to it, we'll revisit this topic to see what people's thoughts are then.
Not really. It would eliminate a lot of new threads, but as others have pointed out, those threads have few if any posts in them.
Gotta admit the new setting seems perfect, not too much to flood, yet enough to spice it up a tad, alot better.
Last edited by BHvrd; 04-21-2012 at 01:49 AM.
So yeah... about that ServBot...
Karma's a bitch, huh?
Well I know I am in the minority but I like the servbot. Imo it has some interesting news articles. It is like stop and pop news. One of the reasons I never posted to the servbots post is because it was the servbot.
neo geo system
As long as it does not flood anymore it should be goodI've throttled down the DP ServBot to only post at most two stories per day per feed. Let's see how everyone likes this lower setting. After a few days to get used to it, we'll revisit this topic to see what people's thoughts are then.
SEGA!
Initially I wanted the Servbot gone because of the general lack of interest in the threads it posted. But after the last incident, where it could be banned and yet still post, I think we need to step up our plans to pull the plug.
ALL HAIL THE 1 2 P
As one of the ones who tried banning him, that felt like a bit of a SkyNet moment for sure.
On the upside, we are now all duly informed that we can run apps from our cars' dashboards.
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