The Moving Bot

[n0]

Hey, I was setting up a fourm of my own, and I was wondering how you did the Moving Bot.

Thanks Admins!

[Link]

Well it probably depends on what code base you are using. If you are using a bad forum like ezboard, you can't really do it.

I don't know how they did the moving bot, but they either programmed it themselves (in PHP) or got a code snippet for it (or it might be built into vB)

[EvilMike]

My guess is that one day an admin created an account called that and gave the password to all of the other admins. The Moving Bot! is just a normal board user.

[Violet CLM]

He/she/it's never done anything that a normal user couldn't do, other then have a special status. Let's picket him/her/it.

[FQuist]

"The Moving Bot!" was a piece of code. PhpBB 1.0 originally just moved topics to a new forum without leaving a moved notice, so I made a code snippet that copied the topic and added a response by the moving bot. It was just an alternative. You can better just make threads be redirected automatically, like in vB.

[KRSplat]

How does it know when to move something?

(I assumed what EvilMike said was right.)

[FQuist]

An admin presses a button called move? :P

[||Slim]

perhaps the word "bot" in its name got people confused, actually thinking this so called bot has some intelligence in it. :P

[KRSplat]

Oh. ;p