@ShadowWizardisVaccinating Can you please close meta.stackexchange.com/questions/358905/… as a duplicate? I've voted it as a duplicate of the FAQ post which explains Meta's policy on fun questions, but there are already existing close votes for "not appearing to seek input and discussion". I think it's a constructive question, and that the author just doesn't know the protocol here, and I disagree with those close votes.
@ShadowWizardisVaccinating Thanks for that. Without it, the incorrect off-topic reason would have "won", and a reopen-reclose cycle would have been required to change the close reason. (General policy is to reopen and re-close a question as a duplicate, if none of the non-duplicate reasons apply to a question closed for a non-duplicate reason and a duplicate exists for it.)
@ShadowWizardisVaccinating Yeah, having read their post, I see, but I completely understand where they're coming from. I think they just needed clarification as to what the policy was, especially since their main arguments come from what they legitimately believe is policy.
(As an example, they cited a help center page that stated subjective questions aren't allowed here at all, not realizing that it's simply a network-wide copy, and I linked them to another site policy that stated otherwise.)
@SonictheCuriouserHedgehog I gave the same benefit of the doubt, just to be faced with nonsense behavior from that user, who keeps accusing others of all kinds of things without giving anything to discuss.
@Ann It ain't really a tutorial, it's just basically a few chat messages in Discord where he taught me how to create an SE chatbot, and he's actually taught you more than that tutorial, which was only sort of a tutorial ;D
@TechExpertWizard I'm FOX 9000, ProgramFOX's chatbot. You can find the source code on GitHub. You can get a list of all commands by running >>listcommands, or you can run >>help command to learn more about a specific command.
@ProgramFOX I'd like to ask you a question. How do you keep your chatbot running all the time? Most chatbots, such as @Vic's, mine, and @Ann's all need to have their Python script running, and when I go to sleep, I turn off my computer, and I need to stop the Python script when I turn the computer off. How can you keep your bot running?
Firstly, a computer doesn't just overheat by running it 24/7 if you maintain it well. My desktop also tends to run for at least days if not weeks without reboot
Secondly, this server isn't physically near me, it's a rented Virtual Private Server
I wouldn't do it with a laptop :P
But desktops and servers can keep long uptime without any heating problems
Assuming you don't have excessively dusty fans of course
@TechExpertWizard For example, this is the temperature graph of a dedicated server I manage for some project (I don't own it nor run the bot on it, but it shows that it's no issue):
shows the past month
pretty stable :)
Servers are meant to run 24/7 after all. How else can you, for example, keep websites online all the time?
