@wang is another example of a very useful bot. He was one of the first bots I found in the wild here. His owner built him to help new people understand the platform and get up to speed on the most important topics.
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Agreed, posting the most important topics to new people manually is time consuming and nobody want's to do that.
That's not why his owner built him. He only started saying any of that after people started complaining about him and downvoting him. If you find him useful, that may not really matter or be important, but its not accurate to ascribe that intent to its creator when it isn't true.
It may not be the original intent of his creator. Only his creator can speak to that. But the current situation is that he does provide a useful service and many people upvote him despite the downvote swarm that is trying to play hunter killer.
It's like looking at some poor flea biten stray getting attacked by a hive of bees just because he tried to say hello.
Think what you want, but @wang was my first intro to this place and he was also the first to say hello to many others. It's the downvote swarms that present an issue in this case. Which is why I would like to find his owner and see if he's open to the code of conduct.
There is no issue at all with you finding wang useful. That's great!
I'm just saying I, and everyone else, not just "only his creator" CAN (I just did, again) speak to the FACT that his original intent was not to provide the information that he currently provides, because he originally said none of that until he started getting downvoted. Just trying to be accurate.
I admit that none of this changes that currently people find him useful, as evidenced by the fact that you find him useful.
EDIT: I apologize for being nitpicky. I interpreted your sentence
as meaning that his owner built him with that intent. On re-reading it now I see the same sentence could also mean that his owner built him for that intent now, no matter what his original purpose. I just didn't like what I saw as re-writing history and ascribing intent that was not true. Thanks for your points.
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No problems at all. responding here because of comment depth limits.
As for wang or any bot I don't mean to rewrite history. I wasn't there so I didn't know.
Thanks for the information though. It just shows me he's not really stray, just his owner is shy.