Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4750818-20150412105535

After a discussion regarding the closure of the suggestions archive forum turned into a bot account discussion (it went off-topic) was closed, I have started this thread order to keep this discussion going.

Sinthoniel has found a way to make wikia bots relatively easily, and he and other admins/mods have decided that this bot would automatically delete forum threads that are below a certain character count, or potentially even forum threads with certain keywords in the title.

Unfortunately, bots are similar to users; they can only be running when the computer they are on is running (wikia cannot host them for us). That means that unless they're running on a dedicated computer, they cannot be run 24/7, although a bot that runs only a few hours per day is still an improvement over having none at all.

The questions I have are the following for those that are willing to undertake this:
 * 1) Is anyone able to run a computer 24/7? It doesn't have to be overly powerful, a retired computer is perfectly OK for this job, and
 * 2) If you run the computer 24/7, are you willing to put Linux on it? Linux is more reliable than Windows or Mac for computers being used as servers or similar purposes.
 * 3) If you can't run a computer 24/7, how many hours per day (on average) do you expect it will be running?

Glflegolas (admin) Send a Messenger 10:55, April 12, 2015 (UTC) 