Archive for August, 2007
two boys and a bot…
With the release of Ustream TV, tech evangelist Chris Pirillo, created a live stream and IRC chat room for his community. As a regular in his original chat, #lockergnome, we were asked if we would like to volunteer to assist with moderating the new #chris chat. I don’t usually volunteer for stuff, but I thought that this would be an “experience”.
About two months ago this kid, Master_Taco, brought a bot into the chat, claiming that he had approval, yada, yada, yada. Chris had requested a trivia bot, so it was no big deal. I don’t mind trivia as I am really good at it. Eventually, things started going downhill with this bot. Master_Taco started adding “features” to this bot, again claiming he had approval. Along the way this other neanderthal, adaminnb, arrived. This guy was a real piece of work. He was acting like he had a severe mental disability to skirt the rules. We banned adaminnb several times. In time he earned a network ban from the Wyldryde IRC network. He even fabricated an appeal from his “mother” to attempt to remove the ban. I have known the operators of this network for some time now and you really have to be an idiot to achieve the g:line ban.
So, a couple of days ago, “one of our operatives” was in adaminnb’s chat. He saw that adaminnb was not disabled and that he and Master_Taco were pulling this stunt merely to annoy the channel operators. Well, it worked. Both are now banned.
Annoying other people for “fun” is bad enough, but preying on the sympathies of others by claiming you are disabled is lower than whale shit in my book.
So here it is, you guys had better watch where you are going, because your karma is about to run over your dogma.
Have a nice day losers.
Filed under General : Comments (10) : Aug 17th, 2007
