Thoughts on the "Not a bot?" reporting feature

[beaugunderson]

Thoughts on the "Not a bot?" reporting feature

[mattlaschneider]

Kind of difficult to say: I love the @big_ben_clock bot, but I imagine a lot of folks would vote "not art" on that one. Does it belong on this site? I would hope so. Although I guess that's an argument for having the two options, at the end of the day.

[beaugunderson]

Art/not art is the wrong question, more like "does this bot belong on the site based on the guidelines"? yes/no

[mattlaschneider]

yeah, that makes sense, then.

[hugovk]

The more important question is "does this bot belong on the site based on the guidelines?".

But "is it art?" could also be included, as although it clearly has no correct answer might still produce some interesting results.

[techdubb]

a snippet from #botally

h0ke - beaujingles: w/r/t bot.community - what constitutes an 'art bot'.
beaujingles - h0ke: that is a good question, and i think maybe ‘art bot’ is slightly too narrow
h0ke - is it art, as in visual bots? or art as in, not entirely utilitarian bots (which i guess could be art as well)
beaujingles - maybe it involves ‘content made for the medium’, like a bot made by the BBC that just tweets links based on an RSS feed of new news stories doesn’t seem like it should go on bot.community, it’s just injecting into the medium rather than made for it
h0ke - gotcha.
beaujingles - the text on the page now should probably just say ‘not a bot?’ cuz there are a lot of human ones that slipped through and probably more useful to remove those than trim the actual bots at this point :)

tl;dr - this link should probably read 'not a bot?'