# Destroy All BOTS!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/destroy-all-bots/63326>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 25, 2001, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/destroy-all-bots/63326 "2001-04-25T18:17:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/destroy-all-bots/63326/1 "2001-04-25T18:17:24Z")

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Who’s with me?

Grab your pitchforks, shovels, shotguns, baseball-bats, axes, whatever you have available.

MSK lights and passes out torches to all of the villagers of MPSIMS. (a scene follows not unlike the classic 30’s Universal horror film - Frankentstein.)

“Let’s storm the server! Destroy all Bots!! Take no prisoners! The evil bots must be destroyed!”

Come on, who’s with me?

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**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/destroy-all-bots/63326/2 "2001-04-25T18:31:52Z")

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I dunno, MSK . . . they’re kinda cute when they’re wet.

And tiggeril has so much fun fixing them up in happy fuzzy bunnies:)

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/destroy-all-bots/63326/3 "2001-04-25T18:46:42Z")

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I’m against it. My only company in fathomchat for the longest time before I totally gave up on it was **fathombot**. Lousy company, but he was always there for me.

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**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/destroy-all-bots/63326/4 "2001-04-25T21:37:07Z")

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For those of us a little hazy on the concept, what’s a “Bot”?

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**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/destroy-all-bots/63326/5 "2001-04-25T22:11:41Z")

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Good luck. You’ll be k-lined before you can throw a trout.  
Inky-, a bot(in this case) is a program that resides on a server and runs in IRC as a normal user. Usually used to protect the channel from spammers, invaders, losers, etc. Can hold all the channel settings and keep them implemented in a channel wheras, if everyone left the channel, they would be lost. Can also be user to run games, store individual user information, attack channels, SPAM channels and survey channels.

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**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2001, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/destroy-all-bots/63326/6 "2001-04-26T12:24:27Z")

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Has this been happening with the sd channel lately?