option to reduce frequency of butts #16
Description
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. say something
2. butt
3. there is no three
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
butt
What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
buttbot v1.00 on gnuButt with libcbutt compiled --with-butts
Please provide any additional information below.
the surrealist humour mechanism that buttbot employs to bring conversation
back down to earth faults when buttbot is butting too often.
perhaps use an algorithm that increases butt frequency proportionally with
number of users / posts per minute so that butts are limited based on
channel size / chattyness. aim for around one or two butts per day for
maximum effect.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 29 Nov 2009 at 5:42