Forum:Chatbot proposal: Difference between revisions

:Right, I'm approaching this with a clear head compared to last time, and, from before, everyone's main concern was based on their privacy. I mean, people have discussed personal lives and whatnot, and, whilst there isn't a great deal of concern of this being logged, it's the lack of privacy that's unnerved people. Unfortunately, this was the spark from last time, but we'd figured that if that could be avoided, then there shouldn't be a problem. I understand the difficulty around keeping them private, but unfortunately the chat regulars won't agree to this if what they say can be easily accessed by anyone. If there's limited access to the logs, then sure, go for it, but if not, then I'll be less willing to support. <font face="Courier (typeface)">[[User:AsherÉire|<font color="#74C365">Asher</font><font color="#FFA700">'''Éire'''</font>]] <small>[[User talk:AsherÉire|'Sup?]]</small> </font> 20:25, April 14, 2014 (UTC)

::To be blunt, participating in chat (or IRC channel, for that matter) necessitates that you suspend any expectations of privacy. There is no protection for users on either medium from saying things private and having those things later revealed to others. Anyone can join the chat at any time and see something written even if it was intended to be private. And there's nothing stopping a person in chat from saving or re-posting everything that's written there, even if wasn't meant to be revealed publicly. The problem here isn't that the chat logs may be public, it's that people are saying things in a space that by its very nature is completely public, yet expecting that those things said should somehow be protected by some veil of privacy; the nature of an open and public channel completely negates that idea. Anyone who uses chat and feels that what they're saying needs to be private should not be using the general channel to say those things - they should reveal that information only in private messages to other users (which cannot and would not ever be logged by any bot) or shouldn't reveal that information at all. -- '''[[User:LostInRiverview|<font color="navy">LostInRiverview</font>]]^{[[User_talk:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">talk</font>]] ~ [[User_blog:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">blog</font>]]}''' 20:36, April 14, 2014 (UTC)