@another'Homosapien' If you are talking about bots, then it is not very easy to write a bot ;) But I don't if users can make modifications like graphics, etc. maybe SE does that.
I didn't find much on metaAnime, so no idea. It might pick up posts randomly, but I mostly found it posting questions that were later closed or by new users.
@another'Homosapien' I thought of asking it, but I don't want annoy them. Maybe their chat is active and people detect them faster while on the chat :)
@another'Homosapien' This idea will also be rejected by others as all new users get notification about the tour page. BTW if you are interested in creating a bot, it is also allowed without others opinions. It is allowed in SE
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How about having a bot that greets new users and provides them all the valuable information about the site in a short summary so that users tend to read it and post on-topic questions. I know that new users get notification about the tour page, but only some people read them and also the on-...
But a bot that automatically does things to chat rooms is generally a very bad idea. It's been tried and ended up confusing users who thought they were interacting with a human. It is also usually horribly invasive.
Well, see how it goes on meta. However, given how rarely this chat room is used, I doubt it's worth it. That said, I tend to be very against bots in chat rooms since, in my experience, they cause more harm then good.
@terdon thats why I started that meta post. We'll first gather all proposals, then mods would contact SE and request them to modify the site...or at least ask if it can be done
@terdon you mean it doesn't require permission from SE?
@another'Homosapien' No, bots are just normal users that, well, happen to be bots. They don't need any special rights or access. You just create a user account and give that to your bot. Changing the main page would involve changing the page's code.
@canadianer We are closing things as "homework" when they are absolutely not homework. We are using that close reason for lack of research but the word means "work the teacher assigned to you" so it is very confusing.
Closing questions is supposed to give guidance on how to improve them. We aren't. We're just giving a very vague "we don't want this here" message without even indicating what's wrong with it (since homework means something very different).
Both. Poorly researched but on topic questions should be downvoted, not closed. That's what votes are for. And if we close something as homework, it must be work assigned to a student. Anything else is not homework. By definition.
No, I mean using homework to only close stuff where someone is asking us to do their homework for them. We are now using it for anything that shows no research, even if it was asked by a 40-year-old baker or whatever, who hasn't had "homework" in decades.
That is just confusing to users and pointless, IMO.
@another'Homosapien' No, I mean not closing them at all. Closing is for things that are not on topic, not welcome here. We are, to my knowledge, unique among all SE sites in that we abuse a close reason to close bad but on topic questions.
No research but on topic should just be downvoted, not closed.
I personally like to see effort put into questions but, as applied, the distinction between good questions and questions with lack of effort is arbitrary.
@canadianer and thats where one needs to be careful while voting to close
I still do feel that questions lacking effort should be closed, until the question is really worth being answered, like (I feel) the vitamin b17 question.
@another'Homosapien' Because whether something is on topic or not depends entirely upon the, well, the topic. Bad questions are not off topic by definition. They're just bad questions. That's what downvotes are for.
@another'Homosapien' No, they should be downvoted.
@another'Homosapien' Okay but the Indian language site is closed. Maybe adequate number of enthusiasts couldn't get know about such a site was getting born at area51.
@another'Homosapien' Beside so many numbers of languages within same country; they are so much different; that it is okay to keep a separate site for even each one.
As well they have some general aspects too; so Indian language site does not lose its importance.