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Idea #23653: Pidgin Auto-blocking Bots In Chatrooms

Written by Gogeden the 11 Feb 10 at 22:39. Related project: Pidgin Internet Messenger. Status: New
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It would be nice if Pidgin could auto-block bots, especially in Yahoo chatrooms, like Gyachi does. They tend to get very annoying and it's frustrating to have to keep clicking ignore on them every few seconds. What if Pidgin could learn along the way between bots and actual people by judging the text usage?

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Solution #1: Log Ignored Bots Text
Written by Gogeden the 11 Feb 10 at 22:39.
Have Pidgin Log Bots by having a option when you right click on a name, that says "Add to Bot List", and when you do, all the text from that username gets logged. Along the way, Pidgin will learn the difference between humans and bots by judging commonly used bot text and bot username characters such as in a text file and auto-blocking. Similar to a spam filter.

Hopefully I made that clear enough lol.
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Solution #2: Bot Plugin
Written by tenplus1 the 12 Feb 10 at 10:08.
Instead of expanding Pidgin on it's own why not create a plugin that does the same bot search/blocking and allows right-clicking "add to bot list" feature... This will keep Pidgin light and give more control over user/bot blocking in channel for most clients, not just yahoo...

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dino wrote on the 12 Feb 10 at 09:15
> Hopefully I made that clear enough lol.

Why lol?

fizyk wrote on the 12 Feb 10 at 10:04
I think you could make that lol clearer ;]

fizyk wrote on the 12 Feb 10 at 10:05
Anyway that idea should go directly to pidgin developers. Pidgin isn't default IM application since Karmic.

Gogeden wrote on the 13 Feb 10 at 18:00
Alright, I'll take it to them :)

tommynz1975 wrote on the 14 Feb 10 at 23:56
why not just use Xchat for IRC. it is less resource hungry. I used to use MIRC years ago and knew how to do this that and the other. Now I know nothing other than a user put me onto Xchat and it felt nicer. sudo apt-get install xchat


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