Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-1370845-20141107202502/@comment-1633483-20141108163019

I oppose the motion. As far as I'm concerned, the logs are a useful resource to reference conversations made in the past or as a fun nostalgic tool for reminiscing on prior events. It has only seldomly been used against other users who may have said something disruptive or offensive and I believe that if someone is improvident enough to do something like that on a public channel, they should be punished accordingly. As far as I'm concerned, the fact that the logs exist is a useful deterrent against such behaviour. However, if you wish to say something on IRC that you may not like another user seeing, simply place a space before your comment and it won't appear in the logs, alternatively, you could simply go to another channel where the infobot isn't present.

Regarding people becoming annoyed about infobot commands, I can see both sides of the argument. Yes, it is annoying when people spam the channel with "~test" when they could simply click their own name, enter private chat and say something there, which will immediately tell you whether or not you have been disconnected, but ultimately, I certainly don't think it's annoying enough to get rid of infobot, which is far more entertaining than it is irritating.

I also believe that the logs should be public. We do not need any more instances of perceived elitism.