It's a bot to enforce originality. Say something in the channel that has been said before, and you get devoiced for 4 seconds. Say another something that has been said before, and the devoice quadruples. Not just something that YOU said before, something that ANYONE said before.
"This is actually what Lockergnome is using...we're using the WyldRyde IRC Network...we've got a nice little Java applet that pops up in the browser window...Its fantastic, I would consider using virtually no other chat software at this point. It works!
This is the front page of a plethora of automated services for the activities of the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts. At the moment, all you can do here is to request an IRC cloak (read more)a.
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