# Banning disco\*bot **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [July 16, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banning-disco-bot/915496 "2020-07-16T14:06:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![discobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/discobot/32/570_2.png) [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banning-disco-bot/915496/321 "2022-08-17T20:25:25Z")
Hi! To find out what I can do, say `@discobot display help`. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banning-disco-bot/915496/322 "2022-08-17T20:37:26Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > When I had inadvertently disabled **discobot** , it simply didn’t respond to my callouts _at all_. Now see, that would have been a good design choice. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banning-disco-bot/915496/323 "2022-08-17T21:06:59Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > So when disabled, it remains ever as annoying, but it loses anything resembling a useful function. > > That was a good design choice. Well, which do you think is the more common user scenario? People who muted DiscoBot, forgot, and are trying to access one of its functions? Or people trying to troll something they know for a fact to be a chat bot? ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banning-disco-bot/915496/324 "2022-08-17T21:26:54Z")
It’s Discobot, so the trolling thing, hands down. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banning-disco-bot/915496/325 "2022-08-17T21:28:50Z")
I had a [whole thread on it](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-disco-bot-test-thread/920497), and it boiled down to [one setting I’d forgotten about](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-disco-bot-test-thread/920497/188). Tripler I still hate the rustbucket. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banning-disco-bot/915496/326 "2022-08-17T21:30:56Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > I still hate the rustbucket. Yeah, ain’t it fun! ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banning-disco-bot/915496/327 "2022-08-17T22:06:09Z")
@discobot, say something nice about @Tripler. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banning-disco-bot/915496/328 "2022-08-17T22:06:56Z")
That’s OK, I’d ignore him too if he talked about me that way. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banning-disco-bot/915496/329 "2022-08-19T17:44:12Z")
Un-poss-impibile. Ain’t that so **discobot**? @discobot fortune Tripler See? I told you. ---
**Author:** ![discobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/discobot/32/570_2.png) [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banning-disco-bot/915496/330 "2022-08-19T17:44:14Z")
> 🔮 Most likely ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banning-disco-bot/915496/331 "2022-08-20T14:22:39Z")
How about creating a thread for @discobot display help. People could use it to explore and learn discourse. Figure out why help doesn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![discobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/discobot/32/570_2.png) [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banning-disco-bot/915496/332 "2022-08-20T14:22:40Z")
Hi! To find out what I can do, say `@discobot display help`. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banning-disco-bot/915496/333 "2022-09-27T04:14:00Z")
@discobot fortune ---
**Author:** ![discobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/discobot/32/570_2.png) [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banning-disco-bot/915496/334 "2022-09-27T04:14:02Z")
> 🔮 Outlook not so good [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banning-disco-bot/915496.md?page=16)