NewsBot is dead.

[Olin Coles]

Our (my) friend, NewsBot, faithfully served up RSS feed news from other sites into this forum for nearly a year. Visitors seemed to be split on their approval since threads would often get burried, but I personally liked having the news available to me without much effort. Until I can find a less intrusive job for NewsBot, he is on a long vacation.

Feel free to post your "farewell" or "miss you" notes in this thread. If I get enough response, the change could be permanent.

[tinfoil]

A good idea that may need room for improvement. True, if one missed scanning the forums on a regular basis, threads not started by the bot could well get buried. Perhaps it could post in a digest form a couple times a day rather than immediately? It would certainly decrease the number of new threads.

[edge]

Death to the BoT!!! LOL...

It really sucks that vB doesn't have a setting to turn off certain forums and or threads from being considered new.

I have been trying to mod my forums for a while not but no luck with it.
If I figure it out I'll drop ya a line...

Edit: Farewell Mr Bot... rofl...