MetaBot in #ubuntu-offtopic

[Martin Jernberg]

> As you might know, I've run a MetaBot in #ubuntu for some time.
> MetaBot is a naive Bayes classifier that determines which messages are
> support
> questions and which ones aren't, and if they are questions, which
> "category"
> they belong to.
>
> Now that the bot is mature, I intend to expand its scope to cover
> detection
> of "trollish" behavior in #ubuntu-offtopic, by implementing it inside
> WatchBot.
>
> The principle will be exactly the same: the bot will scan messages and
> apply
> the Bayes algorithm to them - the difference is that, if a message is
> categorized as "trolling", ops are alerted, and the offender is
> automatically
> muted for 5 minutes.
>
> I think this is a "safe" behavior, as a 5-minutes mute is unlikely to
> cause
> any harm even in the case of a false positive.
>
> The bot will only permanently ban offenders if more than 4 "trolling"
> messages
> get sent within a 30 minutes timeframe, and will still alert the operators
> if
> that happens so that they can review the events.
>
> I hope this will be useful and make #ubuntu-offtopic a more pleasing
> experience.
>
>
> by LjL
> ljl at ubuntu.com
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i diden't know ubuntu had an offtopic channel but now i do *joined*