<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear members,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">A lot has been discussed about +r and -r lately</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">according to the spammers and trolls in #ubuntu.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">When #ubuntu is +r with #ubuntu-unregged</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">we can filter them out, but then also the serious</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">webchat users do not find their way for quick support.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">And usercount of #ubuntu is dropping down.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">When #ubuntu is -r we have more usercount, everyone can join</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">but also the trolls are back.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">So as the #ubuntu-discuss team would like to contribute</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">to have a clean support experience again in #ubuntu</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">we would like to propose a votebot plugin as shown below:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail-snippet-text"> <div><div class="gmail-document" id="gmail-community-moderation-support-bot"> <h1 class="gmail-title">Community Moderation Support Bot</h1> <p>This document describes the need for, and possible solution with, a bot based support for community self-moderation in IRC channels like #ubuntu on Freenode.</p> <div class="gmail-section" id="gmail-the-need"> <h1>The Need</h1> <p>#ubuntu on Freenode is relatively frequently a target for trolls and bored people to cause a mess. The available channel ops cannot be expected to be on duty 24/7, and there's often times where no op is available to react to particular trolling campaign.</p> </div> <div class="gmail-section" id="gmail-the-solution"> <h1>The Solution</h1> <p>The solution recommended here is to reduce the availability demand from <cite>!ops</cite> by giving some moderation capabilities to the community, in the following fashion:</p> <ul class="gmail-simple"><li><p>Existing or a new bot could be equipped with a functionality called herein as <cite>votekick</cite></p></li><li><p>The functionality would kick, kickban or just mute a nick, based on votes. The least privilege model would just +q a nick based on these votes</p></li><li><p>For example, user <cite>rudetroll666</cite> (made up here as example) is behaving in such a way that requires at least a mute</p></li><li><p>The bot has a list of users it trusts for <cite>votekick</cite>. These users can each <cite>/msg bot votekick rudetroll666</cite></p></li><li><p>A configurable threshold of N votes would be required in T seconds, for the bot to react</p></li><li><p>The bot would also have configurable limits to how many such votekicks it can do in a period of time, in a smart way considering IP addresses of nicks it is "kicking", for example it could be configured for a maximum of 10 different IPs votekicked per 10 minutes (so 1/minute, burst 10)</p></li><li><p>The bot would log or otherwise somehow inform the Ops about this activity</p></li><li><p>The list of users who the bot would listen to must be defined in advanced. Recommended are regulars of the channel who can be "trusted" (within the least privilege model of just giving them the ability to +q).</p></li></ul> <p>Abuse can only happen if N or more users conspire to abuse. And the worst thing that can happen is someone got muted for a short while. The abusers, however, could permanently be removed from this moderation list.</p> </div> <div class="gmail-section" id="gmail-the-implementation"> <h1>The Implementation</h1> <ul class="gmail-simple"><li><p>As a plugin to existing bots?</p></li></ul> </div> </div> </div> </div><div class="gmail-snippet-text"><br></div><div class="gmail-snippet-text">Feel free to share your ideas about this.</div><div class="gmail-snippet-text"><br></div><div class="gmail-snippet-text">Greetings, the crew from #ubuntu-discuss<br></div></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,0,255)">BEZOEK ONZE WEBSITE: <a href="http://lotuscomputers.be" target="_blank">http://lotuscomputers.be</a></span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1ErZIKIIfSZvSHlNejmd4zLGoJo_xG60u&revid=0Bx-qeZ7pHzgOQ1lQMmlvdUZ1SGFXajk3VXI4N0lSVS9JSGZvPQ" width="420" height="147"><br></div></div></div></div></div>