The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Approved.

Operator: HagermanBot

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): Visual C# .NET

Function Summary: Warn users who leave 2 unsigned comments within a 24-hour period.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous

Edit rate requested: 6 edits per minute

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N

Function Details:

Since the bot is already leaving the ((unsigned)) template when a user forgets to sign a comment on a talk page, I'd like to begin warning users who leave two unsigned comments within a 24-hour period by placing a comment (like ((tilde))) on their talk page.

Discussion[edit]

Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. This task is approved for trial. Run a trial for up to 20 edits and post the results her e within 1 week. I can't see any reason to oppose this, as it is quite reasonable. We may want to tweak with the logic at some point, but for now let's see it in action. -- RM 13:07, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, the new version supporting this feature is live. Here is a sample diff. Based on some feedback I received, we've decided that when leaving the unsigned comment, it will also whitelist the user for 24 hours so any subsequent comments will not be signed by the bot. The bot will stop talk notification at 20 edits, please let me know if you wish to extend this after you observe its performance. Thanks, Hagerman^(talk) 02:24, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Here is the first real match:

• Unsigned comment #1
• Unsigned comment #2
• Talk page notification

Best, Hagerman^(talk) 03:25, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Let me get something clarified. When you say that the bot will stop at 20 edits, what do you mean? -- RM

Since its in a trial period, it will stop performing this task after it has left a note on 20 users' talk pages. The other task will continue to run uninterrupted. Best, Hagerman^(talk) 13:38, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the delay, I haven't had a chance to sit down and compile all of the results. Here they are:

12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Best, Hagerman^(talk) 17:48, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. I looked over the edits. You got a lot of new users, and I'm not sure how many even cared about your post. But I do know that at least one did. There were a number of them that were vandals. I'm not sure how useful this will be, but at least you are trying to be helpful and when you catch the occasional legitimate user, that's what counts. I see no reason to prevent this. I'm going to approve this additional task for the bot. You could consider trying the bot out with 3 instead of 2 unsigned comments in 24 hours, but I don't know that it would make much difference anyway. -- RM 13:33, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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