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    Question why does everyone have a go at the bot

    what does it do and what is it? and why is it annoying?

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    The bot is an RSS feed which posts in the forum when a News Reporter posts on Habbox.com. People seem to feel it simply spams the forum and is irritating. Obviously, I believe otherwise.


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    ok thank you
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    Quote Originally Posted by SeriouslyGrey View Post
    The bot is an RSS feed which posts in the forum when a News Reporter posts on Habbox.com. People seem to feel it simply spams the forum and is irritating. Obviously, I believe otherwise.
    SeriouslyGrey took the words out of my mouth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SeriouslyGrey View Post
    The bot is an RSS feed which posts in the forum when a News Reporter posts on Habbox.com. People seem to feel it simply spams the forum and is irritating. Obviously, I believe otherwise.
    You would, you're the News Manager

    It nulls the point of the forum, people should be posting Habbo News aswell, now they can't because it'll be overlooked by the glorified SpamBot and they'll get told off for posting the same news twice (unless you really want to argue with a Bot). You may aswell have it as a "Read Only" forum, or a huge link that links to Habbox's News.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GommeInc View Post
    You would, you're the News Manager

    It nulls the point of the forum, people should be posting Habbo News aswell, now they can't because it'll be overlooked by the glorified SpamBot and they'll get told off for posting the same news twice (unless you really want to argue with a Bot). You may aswell have it as a "Read Only" forum, or a huge link that links to Habbox's News.
    As I have said in other thread, it doesn't null the point because I don't doubt for one second that non-staff members post Habbo news quicker, the bot just allows for an alternative format of the news to be given. It wasn't designed to take away user discussion, it was designed to generate it.


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    Quote Originally Posted by SeriouslyGrey View Post
    The bot is an RSS feed which posts in the forum when a News Reporter posts on Habbox.com. People seem to feel it simply spams the forum and is irritating. Obviously, I believe otherwise.
    I wish my account was also used as a bot so my post count was like 100000.

    I think it just seems a little pointless tbh, my opinion though! :8

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    Quote Originally Posted by SeriouslyGrey View Post
    As I have said in other thread, it doesn't null the point because I don't doubt for one second that non-staff members post Habbo news quicker, the bot just allows for an alternative format of the news to be given. It wasn't designed to take away user discussion, it was designed to generate it.
    An alternative format? That's just going to cause problems when a news reporter reports on news after a member. It'll be post "old news" which, if I remember, gets removed in the news forums because the news is already being discussed. It will be seen as "spam" in some cases, because that's part of the definition of spam

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    Quote Originally Posted by GommeInc View Post
    An alternative format? That's just going to cause problems when a news reporter reports on news after a member. It'll be post "old news" which, if I remember, gets removed in the news forums because the news is already being discussed. It will be seen as "spam" in some cases, because that's part of the definition of spam
    Which will, in turn, cause a few problems for the moderation department.

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    They should have done a poll first to see if people actually want it. (unless they already did, i must have missed it)

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