The Awkward Silence

NVZ

7:00 PM

We'll see how it goes, for a day or so. Test run.

Catija

@Mithrandir What's the regex testing for, specifically... the "not an answer but" sort of stuff?

NVZ

Mith is a comment hunter. No comment can escape his grip. ;)

Mithrandir

@Catija Yes, that's one thing it's detecting

It's also looking for 'joined just to upvote', 'you should try', etc

Catija

How about "Celia" the "Chatty Comment Catcher"?

NVZ

Not bad.

Tinkeringbell

7:07 PM

@Catija I like that one :)

TheTinyMan

"The Peanut Gallery"

NVZ

Ava?

thesecretmaster

Also, I just wrote some !!/help text, if anyone forgets the commands.

Tinkeringbell

!!/help

IPS Comment Bot

Note: If <botname> is the only argument, it can be ommitted and the command will be seen by all bots. If <botname> is "*" all bots will repond as though they've been mentioned.

!!/on <botname> - Turns on the bot (if it isn't already on)
!!/off <botname> - Turns off the bot. When the bot is off, it will only respond to !!/on.
!!/notify <botname> <type> <on/off> - Turns notifications on or off. Currently there are two types: "regex", and "magic"
!!/alive <botname> - It'll tell you if it's alive
!!/reports <botname> - It'll tell you what the current reporting settings are for the current room

NVZ

7:09 PM

"all bots will respond" ... somehow that scares me.

Tinkeringbell

(always read the manual first!)

thesecretmaster

@NVZ In the control room there's one running on meta too.

NVZ

and suddenly everyone heads over to the control room...

...

thesecretmaster

It's kinda spammy over there though -- in that room, every single comment on main or meta gets posted.

Extroverted Main Man

7:25 PM

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Q: How long to wait after death of significant others parent to break up with them?

Ever since this happened, things have been very tense between me and my girlfriend. I have returned to our apartment 7 days a week, giving up staying second apartment and it's only made things worse than before because I don't believe she trusts me at all and our relationship has seemed to lose...

IPS Comment Bot

#9739 Tinkeringbell (12509 rep) | Q: How long to wait after death of significant others parent to break up with them? (score: 0) | posted 11 minutes ago by Steve (893 rep)

Matched regex(es) ["you\\W(really)?(need\\Wto|should)"]

Tinkeringbell

Okay, so how do I indicate a false positive? :P

TheTinyMan

@Tinkeringbell is fired ;-)

Tinkeringbell

You know, this might become my new challenge... writing comments that make the bot go nuts! :P

thesecretmaster

@Tinkeringbell Tell @Mithrandir to write better regex :)

Tinkeringbell

7:33 PM

@thesecretmaster I will! @Mithrandir!!!!! you need to fix the regex :P

Or I'll turn it off :P

thesecretmaster

It was supposed to post the actual comment too. It'll post the comment along with the metadata next time.

sphennings

@Mithrandir Is there a way to see the existing regex rules?

Tinkeringbell

Someone that wants to step in and edit out the 'avoid the community guidelines' here? interpersonal.stackexchange.com/questions/9739/…

!!/reports

IPS Comment Bot

regex_match: true
magic_comment: true

Tinkeringbell

Oh...

That didn't give much info :P

thesecretmaster

7:37 PM

Yeah. I don't have a list regex command, but I can pull them out of the DB. Gimme a sec.

Mithrandir

@Tinkeringbell :(

thesecretmaster

in The Closet, 54 secs ago, by IPS Comment Bot

Starting at rev 3bfb0d8 on branch master (Added regex dump)

!!/regexes

IPS Comment Bot

thesecretmaster

"q" means it applies to comments on questions and "a" means comments on answers.

Mithrandir

(the redacted ones are probably my offensive regex)

thesecretmaster

7:43 PM

Yep

I just manually edited that message, so if anyone else runs that command, it won't be removed.

Mithrandir

@Tinkeringbell You could help if you want ;)

Tinkeringbell

@Mithrandir I'm a bit tied up at the moment ;)

Mithrandir

Have you been kidnapped?

Tinkeringbell

@Mithrandir No, I got tangled in the yarn...

TheTinyMan

@Tinkeringbell In capitalist Netherlands, yarn knits you?

Tinkeringbell

7:55 PM

@TheTinyMan Sort-of I guess :P

Wish it was knitted, that would make for easy untangling...

Right now, it's in a state called yarn-barf.

Link: google.nl/…

Mithrandir

@thes Did you see my ping in the TL?

thesecretmaster

Oh, yes, I just forgot to answer.

Mithrandir

'k

IPS Comment Bot

8:39 PM

@Samuel that's the reason why I mention in my answer that looking at your phone briefly isn't really that rude. I could pitch up at a date with a book and read instead and it would still be rude. The rudeness is not the phone, it's ignoring your date. — Stacey 1 min ago

#9557 Stacey (4526 rep) | Q: How can I tell my date to not use her phone unnecessarily during dinner? (score: 83) | posted 4 days ago by D.Hutchinson (548 rep) | edited 3 days ago by D.Hutchinson (548 rep) | Has magic comment

TheTinyMan

So I've seen this term bandied about today, what's a 'magic comment?'

Is it a comment submitted psychically instead of with a computer? :o

Mithrandir

This is the magic comment:

Please don’t write answers in comments. It bypasses our quality measures by not having voting (both up and down) available on comments, as well as having other problems detailed on meta. Comments are for clarifying and improving the question; please don’t use them for other purposes. — Arwen Undómiel Jan 25 at 9:18

Extroverted Main Man

-2

Q: New friend put us in awkward position

A new friend has lead a rough life, an ex drug user that still seems to have street ties that come with way too much drama for us. She put us (my hubby & I) in an uncomfortable position last week by yelling and threatening some guy when we stopped at a gas station. We had no idea what was going...

relationships online-interaction

TheTinyMan

Ah, so the detection just lets us know when someone has felt the need to say that?

Mithrandir

No, the detection picks up all comments posted after the "please don't write answers in comments" comment was left.

TheTinyMan

8:43 PM

@Mithrandir Ahhhh, gotcha, okay

sphennings

@Mithrandir It might be a good idea to add a description such as "comment after AIC warning" to the bot.

Anne Daunted

@NVZ I was not talking about English Student, that's why I was surprised. (btw., I'm sure he is male). I was talking about the bot.

@Mithrandir @Catija Scroll up a bit (I don't want to link to it) like 2 hours ago, where thesecretmaster posted the github link. I just wonder if someone's actual name was revealed.

Mithrandir

Yeah, it's okay - he links to his github from his profile as well.

Anne Daunted

@IPSCommentBot Hi! How's your first day going? A lot of work?

Okay, I thought better safe than sorry

Mithrandir

The bot isn't very talkative :P

sphennings

8:52 PM

@AnneDaunted They link to that github account from their profile. There's no requirement that you use a handle instead of your actual name.

TheTinyMan

@Mithrandir But there's a github so we can fix that! :-D

When we're done he'll have, himself, devised a better alternative to the Turing Test!

Mithrandir

!!/test You should really do something like this

Anne Daunted

@Mithrandir I will need all my IPS then. I love challenges

Mithrandir

!!/test ips q You should really do something like this

okay, no testing in here, that's restricted to the control room

Anne Daunted

@IPSCommentBot I understand that you still need some time. Everything is new and overwhelming at the beginning. I know that feeling just too well. But be assured that I'm always there for you if you have questions

We need a chatbot or rather artificial conversational entity (what an awesome username that would have been). I like the idea of the IPS crowd, who's advising people on how to deal with other human beings, spending their time on talking to a computer program.

IPS Comment Bot

9:05 PM

@Stacey I'm saying rudeness is culturally based. It's fine if the OP finds a behavior rude, I'm just saying they need to realize that finding it rude doesn't mean it's universally rude. This includes your book example. My wife and I bring books on our dates with each other. When people assume their feelings are shared by everyone their reaction will often be less considerate because they assume the person offending them is doing it intentionally. — Samuel 16 secs ago

#9557 Samuel (101 rep) | Q: How can I tell my date to not use her phone unnecessarily during dinner? (score: 84) | posted 4 days ago by D.Hutchinson (553 rep) | edited 3 days ago by D.Hutchinson (553 rep) | Has magic comment

Mithrandir

@AnneDaunted @Pseudohuman used to be in here

Anne Daunted

an actual bot?

Mithrandir

yep

Also seems to be down, have to ping @JennaSloan to get it back up again ;)

Tinkeringbell

@AnneDaunted we had pseudohuman

Anne Daunted

:-)

everyone knows pseudohuman except for me

what was chatting with it like?

Mithrandir

9:08 PM

It randomly gave you some info about random songs and said "I don't understand" a lot :P

Anne Daunted

Wait, that's me!

TheTinyMan

@AnneDaunted ... this explains a lot.

Anne Daunted

@TheTinyMan I don't understand

TheTinyMan

I think the @AnneDaunted bot needs to be taken offline for maintenance...I'll call a guy. :-P

Anne Daunted

free online dating

TheTinyMan

9:11 PM

@AnneDaunted Ooh! click click It...it's not a link! D:

Anne Daunted

Sorry for digressing but I finally learned what smartphones are useful for

TheTinyMan

@AnneDaunted Free online dating?

Anne Daunted

be prepared

"and clearly the only thing kids use cell phones for are to take crotch pics and get raped anyway."

parenting.stackexchange.com/revisions/33095/1

TheTinyMan

That was some pretty hilarious sarcasm in context

I have definitely known "old people"™ who've seemed to hold that conclusion :-p

Mithrandir

I use my phone to check for new flags mostly, actually :p

Anne Daunted

9:15 PM

There was not enough time to implement sarcasm into my source code

TheTinyMan

@AnneDaunted Gosh-darned stretch goals...we never seem to be able to work on them no matter how important they seem! D:

Anne Daunted

I'm off now

for maintenance

put your phones away!

apaul

9:29 PM

Hmm...

IPS Comment Bot

10:01 PM

Discuss this with the person responsible for what you spend your time on and ask if and what you should do when asked. It might be as simple as having to have approval from your manager before asking you. — Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen 2 mins ago

#9708 Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen (154 rep) | Q: How do I politely tell my coworker he can do the work himself? (score: 18) | posted 12 hours ago by JaneDoe1337 (2796 rep)

Matched regex(es) ["you\\W(really)?(need\\Wto|should)"]

Introverted Meta Man.

10:29 PM

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Q: How can we encourage more discussion when voting to close, or why is it not happening already?

I feel like I've become more aware of a trend, in that it seems that when a question ends up in the review queue, it tends to snowball into getting closed regardless of what editing efforts are made to salvage the post. The most recent example I can find of this is New friend put us in awkward p...

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