Talk:IRC bot

message: Rogers Yahoo in Toronto treats IRC BOTS as a virus and suspends all access to its Internet Servers account when its security screening indicates one is being used.  Its process for restarting service is opaque, vexatious, and time consuming, to say the least.
Abroker 15:11, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rogers Yahoo terminates access 

message: Should this page specifically mention how bots work with the IRC RFC (#1459)? Wikipedia is not a how-to, but mentioning PRIVMSG, JOIN, and the like could be helpful for improving the article. GracenotesT § 17:11, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I see that it has been mentioned in the IRC article. But some pseudocode might be helpful here. GracenotesT § 20:09, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  How bots work 

message: I've gone through all revisions of the page, and it seems that all but Eggdrop and Infobot have been added by anonymous IPs that haven't contributed anything to the article.               . I've written a chatbot myself, and in the progress I was told to look at the Eggdrop project - it's the only one I've ever heard of in my couple years of experience in IRC. Do we really need a spam farm like that? Can't we rewrite the paragraph to only mention Eggdrop, and maybe also Infobot? --MathiasRav 10:59, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Other pages that have these types of lists take two approaches. The normal WP:NOTABLE criteria (and expecially the web and software parts for the case at hand) are good for "should we including something?", so we could scrap all external links and keep links to things that have their own Wikipedia pages. There is also DMOZ, a moderated/currated/annotated directory of external sites that is less of a free-for-all than Wikipedia, and if there's a list of IRC bots, we could link that and then no external links for particular bots. DMacks 17:29, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Related DMOZ page lists all bots in a row and only eggdrop owns its section. I am an eggdrop fan, but I think that it would unfairly sink really popular bots, such as infobot or energymech, in the deepest hidden hobbit hole. My heart tells me to quote only the 3 or 4 more used bots, and add a DMOZ link below. It sounds like the honnest way, but this mixed approach doesn't solve the problem (and might even be worse). -- skiidoo 19:33, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think that solution fails to solve the problem (but there are several things happening, so I don't know what you envision as being unsolved or worse). If something has a WP page, I don't know a reason not to link it. If someone creates a WP page for his/her pet bot that isn't notable by WP community standards, then that page gets deleted same as usual. DMacks 19:49, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I wish I could express myself in a better english, but to keep it short, let's take your first answer as the way to go, you're right the WP:NOTABLE criteria does apply here. -- skiidoo 00:32, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popular bots 

message: As far as I know, Jyrki Alakuijala's "Puppe" was the first computer program to chat in IRC. Later, Vesa Perttunen modified the code to a variant personality, "Roope". These were simple C programs that pretended to be normal users, capable of using both public and private messages.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.73.205.88 (talk) 00:15, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oldest bot? 

message: I think that Python should be added to the programming languages IRC bots are written in. I have written one in Python, and so have many others.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.32.71.162 (talk) 21:01, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  adding Python to the list of languages 

message: I noticed that several links in the "Comparison" section of the IRC Bots page are no longer functional (dead links). I've helped improve the page by removing some of these dead links and replacing a few with relevant resources.
In addition, I'd like to suggest  as a potential resource for the "External Links" or "IRC topics" section. This webpage offers a comprehensive tutorial on creating an IRC bot with fully-functional Python code. The tutorial is well-structured, easy to follow, and provides practical examples to guide users through the process. Agsoumya (talk) 17:13, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fixed dead links and suggesting a resource