Maybe part of the problem is that half the time someone posts to his talk page it's a rant something along the lines of "WTF HOW CUD U DLETE MI PIX" I'm not saying he ignores anything put on his talk page, but he may experience negative emotions whenever he sees "you have new messages..." That means it's a little more difficult for him to AGF, no matter how hard he tries. That may be why he comes off as rude sometimes. And when he comes off as rude, people are discouraged from talking to him directly. So whenever there is a problem, everyone goes over his head at ANI etc. This makes him more upset, perpetuating the cycle. Yes, he does need to better control his emotions in the short run. In the long run, we either need to make an exception to WP:CIVIL, accept that he will eventually go crazy and leave us with no bot (of course someone could probably write a new one, restarting the cycle), or find a different approach to handling BCBot and its flood of complaints, such as a group managed method.
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Alex G g1ggyman@gmail.com wrote:
I doubt it. Somehow, discussing with BC is a concept that went out of fashion when he started doing something useful.
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
On 18/02/2008, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
Interested folks should take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Betacom...<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Betacommand>
< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Betacom...
. It is a hopefully centralized discussion aimed at finding a solution to
the
ongoing problems with Betacommand, BetacommandBot and image tagging.
There
is also some question about the "deadline" that is upcoming for
removing
non-free images, a question that could perhaps be directed to
Foundation
reps. That I think is at a different thread at WP:AN, since it doesn't directly relate to Betacommand.
I'm continually mystified by the antics of people who seem unable to understand that to communicate with Betacommand it is only necessary to place a message on his talk page. In this respect he is exactly like every other user on Wikipedia.
I've proposed that the page thus be merged with betacommand's user talk page. Perhaps realizing that they're meant to discuss things *with* him might lessen the massive flood.
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