This is really cool in a semi-futuristic kind of way.
It also makes a dilema for users. For example I don't want to use a bot, but I also want RP stories to get their fair shake, but if everyone else is going to use a bot, then I have to also.
Hmm, I suppose there's a Nash equilibrium there :-)
I recently thought about a project called "anarchypedia", which would simply be a wikipedia without any editors. I wonder what would happen? Perhaps there would also be bot-wars, with spammer-bots mending articles into spam and corrector-bots watching over the articles and fixing them back again.
Like I think for IRC, if you want to stay in control of your channel, you have to run a bot that keeps the admin rights for you? Similarly, to keep in control of an article on anarchypedia, you have to keep a corrector-bot running...
I'd love to try this out, but I don't know how to set up an anonymous server. Can't risk to be liable for the stuff people might be putting on that site.
It also makes a dilema for users. For example I don't want to use a bot, but I also want RP stories to get their fair shake, but if everyone else is going to use a bot, then I have to also.
Hmm, I suppose there's a Nash equilibrium there :-)