Channel protection bot

[Robert Wall]

Howdy,

Firstly, thanks for working on this :)

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Unit 193 <unit193 at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> we've been trying out the ChanTracker [0] plugin in the bot named Drone`
> for a few months now. The bot has been run in "debug" mode with the output
> in #ubuntu-ops-monitor. Now we're ready to enable it in one of the channels.


How has it been behaving in debug mode so far? Do you have any insights
into false-positive rates, false-negative rates, behavior that might need
further tuning or operator oversight, etc.?


> ChanTracker is a ban management and channel protection plugin. Its main
> benefit is that it can detect and take different actions to more types of
> attacks [1] than unopaste (the current flood bot) supports. A few
> additional benefits would include announcing mode changes in the control
> channel, and the ability to set temporary exempts for users that will
> auto-expire.
>

Based on this, I assume that the plan would be to remove unopaste and use
ChanTracker instead, eventually. Does ChanTracker implement a superset of
unopaste's functionality?

While the plugin supports full ban management capabilities, the goal is
> only to use it as attack prevention. Thus, ubottu should still be used for
> comments and setting the duration of bans.
>

Good to know, thanks.

For more information about the plugin and all its capabilities, please see
> the readme[3]; ask Unit193 on IRC.
>

(I'm asking here instead because I think the answers are relevant to
ubuntu-irc@ in general, and because I'd like further discussion of this
idea so we hear about any objections etc. ahead of time.)

-- 
Robert Wall <robert at rww.name>
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