Board Thread:Chat Discussion/@comment-5590118-20141110075448/@comment-5590118-20141110205159

Grizzly Bear wrote: Shining-Armor wrote: 1. This bot had been discussed about a year ago and it was decided that it would be allowed to operate. However, this new software which is completely independent of QC's chat bot program (the only similarities is that the two pieces of software run on the same account).

2. You can completely opt-out of this now. I have already added you to the opt-out list and QC has dumped all of the stuff you have said.

It should also been known that this isn't something that has been going on secretly. This has been discussed many times in chat with and without you present from the day it started. This has been no secretive operation and will only grow to be more transparent. 1. I was not here "about a year ago" and neither were many regulars today. I may not have always been paying attention to chat (despite being there extremely frequently) and I never saw it until last night.

2. Thank you, but unless the other users are spammers or vandals, what is the purpose of having their information gathered? 1. There are mods here today that are over a year old. Do we need to re discuss their rights every year as well?

2. This isn't about people being spammers or vandals this is about fine tuning software that can be used to assume details about users that can then be used against spammers and vandals. How QC does this is a much more complex thing that I am not going to explain. If you'd re-read the thread maybe you can find where I say why it's here and what it does.