Operator: Avandal
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, unsupervised.
Programming Language(s): Ruby on Wheels!
Function Summary: Assisting with vandalism, periodically battling archnemesis AntiVandalBot.
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous, of course!
Edit rate requested: 100 edits per picosecond
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N
Function Details: Writing nonsensical and occasionally profane statements on articles, replacing them with gibberish. Is set to every so often vandalize the user page of users who leave it a message. Moving pages to nonsensical names. Further functions are planned if the bot is approved at RfA.
Discussion
editIf successful in trial, VandalBot could entirely eliminate the need for human vandalism, saving hard-working vandals the trouble of writing nonsense and garbage.
- Could this bot also provide subtle vandalism, per the rules? — xaosflux Talk 04:39, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
- Absolutely! In fact, it's designed to do everything listed in this policy. Avandal 04:41, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
- Can it replace humaniod trolls concentrating on religious articles and associated articles like, Football, Rugby, Cricket etc Gnangarra 05:26, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
- Of course. If it detects a revert war in progress, it will revert the article exactly three times per 24 hours and one second. If it then gets blocked, it will also start posting incoherent rants about admin abuse when no rules were broken. Avandal 05:29, 1 April 2007 (UTC)