# Pitting IRC chat bots.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-irc-chat-bots/260794>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 21, 2004, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-irc-chat-bots/260794 "2004-08-21T00:44:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-irc-chat-bots/260794/1 "2004-08-21T00:44:25Z")

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Faaaaaaar too many 40s, 50s, and 60s chart toppers type questions! Don’t they know the average age of the chat room user is something like 18? I’m 25 and I am uttelry clueless about music before, say, 1985.  
Get those damn questions deleted from the question list!

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**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-irc-chat-bots/260794/2 "2004-08-21T00:56:19Z")

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So, how about them Beach Boys?

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-irc-chat-bots/260794/3 "2004-08-21T01:08:45Z")

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Adding to the pitting - the traps people set for chat-room fogeys stroke newbies like me.

I was a veteran more than 5 years ago. Now things have changes so much.  
Out of the many many rooms whose descriptions make the remotest sense that I enter, today I finally found ONE where people were talking. I was just getting into my stride when someone asked me to reccomend a game room (one where a bot asks trivia questions and awards points to the word-perfect first answer) so I did. BANG! banned from the chat room. Turns out the mere mention of another chat room is an automatic banning. So I learned that the hard way.

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-irc-chat-bots/260794/4 "2004-08-21T01:11:11Z")

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P.S. Title of thread should be “Pitting IRC _Game_ chat bots”

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-irc-chat-bots/260794/5 "2004-08-21T13:54:04Z")

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People still use IRC?

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-irc-chat-bots/260794/6 "2004-08-21T16:07:20Z")

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> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> People still use IRC?

What else is there for chat rooms of multiple people?

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**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-irc-chat-bots/260794/7 "2004-08-21T16:58:10Z")

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It’s called _City of Heroes_, **Lobsang**. Get with the [program](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=263631). 😃