Is Ruu a bot? (A thunderdrome thread)

fade2black

First off, if it turns out that "Ruu" is acually a humanoid, then straight off the bat I must say that I think he's an A1 guy who takes all banter type abuse in the good manner in which it is intended.

However.

I'm not so sure. The more I think about it, the more I think that this is some sort of security type bot that Cloud has created in his shed. The Ruu never sleeps, never relents, never fails...it is a one bot thread sticking, thread locking, thread moving, thread reporting, thread merging, thread splitting, sig highlighting, muppet banning, machine.

I'll never grow tired of the wonders that one man, a tin of beans and a good idea, can create. Praise be for the times we live in. Praise be for Ruu.

whassupp2

Its like an automated poster that never turns off. In fact he's probably online now.

Ruu_Old

Just outta bed actually, can someone put on the kettle for meh. 6:07am

Beruthiel

whassupp2 wrote:

Its like an automated poster that never turns off. In fact he's probably online now.

I can confirm that he is

/edit
See how fast he is!?
Got there before I could even reply.
Proves this is all fact.

kdouglas

perhaps he only sleeps for 2 hours a day?

Ruu_Old

Well the fact that I am 6 hours behind Irish time might be a factor, when you are all tucked in your leabas (or should be!) its early in the good ole USA.

MrJoeSoap

kdouglas wrote:

perhaps he only sleeps for 2 hours a day?

And perhaps the 20-45 minute naps are at boards slowest times, interesting...

fade2black

Ruu wrote:

Well the fact that I am 6 hours behind Irish time might be a factor, when you are all tucked in your leabas (or should be!) its early in the good ole USA.

That to me sounds like some kind of design fault or system error to be honest. Cloud will have to sort that.

Dyr

Its silly to suggest that Ruu is a robot, pfft. It is a course a complex program (RUU- Resident Unmanned User) designed by cloud to auto moderate boards

As it had become clear that no sentient being can moderate AH without turning into a gibbering wreck (or worse still, WWMan) it was decided that drastic steps must be taken.

Cloud, after minutes of tireless research, realised that boards threads (especially AH threads) follow a definite pattern and thus designed RUU to automoderate all threads based on a complex mixture of key word weighting, heuristics and poster history. The only problem is that RUU's processing is an absolute memory hog, which is why so many boards features have been disabled. Just to free up resources for RUU


No point complaining though, the Admins no longer come here, preferring to leave all the work to RUU while they blow our user subscription's on snorting lines of sherbet dib-dab offa glenda gilsons eyebrows in lillies . So you could say if this all blows up we're ScRUU'd :mad:

monkeyfudge

Ruu wrote:

Just outta bed actually,

Emerged from your recharging alcove more like!

Dub13

Ruu

Lust4Life

So my subscription money goes toward paying the electric bill to recharge Ruu? Well spent, I say!:p

WhiteWashMan

Bambi wrote:

(or worse still, WWMan)

do you want to qualify that statement please?

Sparky

Yeah Ruu is a bot created by vB.

He comes as standard in the new vB and as a plugin for previous versions from 3.5.0 up.

It is programmed to tag words and spider them and reply to them is a "conversation agent manner".

The system in fact uses a scale system of 1 to 10 on importance of words.

10 is excellent and 1 is deemed very bad.
It usually replies to threads with words >5 on the scale and either replies, locks or deletes threads <5.

You may notice boards is slow over the past few months.
This is because Ruu needs all the servers searching indexes to preform well.
Up until recently, the search function was available to all, but since the bot was upgraded it needed all the server to search and thus deemed the search unusable for general users.

The bot Ruu also had one major bug on which cloud is working closely with vB on.
Threads with more than 2000 posts would render the bot unusable in a server manner.
Server CPU usage went up 100% whenever Ruu would spider threads greater than 2000 posts, this in return slowing everything down.

melekalikimaka

back up time is ruus nap time

projectmayhem

Ruu is a pleasurebot afaik... :eek:

Femelade

next we will all be singing something like this

Ruu_Old

Femmy wrote:

next we will all be singing something like this

Brilliant.

Nick_oliveri

Praise be i say!

Beruthiel

Femmy wrote:

next we will all be singing something like this

considering that my name is Anna, I don't believe that song was written for Ruu

I'm not a bot
I'm really a nice girl

Lust4Life

HA! A Pleasure bot! Love it!!!

abetarrush

"I know a bot, his name is RUU, RUU is his name..."

haha, anyone else remember dat german techno pop Anna the Bot

Tar.Aldarion

Like me, he only sleeps during the back up.

Pocari Sweat

Is the RUU programme, more sophisticated programming wizzardry with neuro-linguistic programming techniques built in or more a vast database of comments, rebuttals, quips and informative phraseology, expertly chosen to be posted in context with pre-set timed responses?

iFight

Femmy wrote:

next we will all be singing something like this

hahaha. Excellent

Adam

Pocari Sweat wrote:

Is the RUU programme, more sophisticated programming wizzardry with neuro-linguistic programming techniques built in or more a vast database of comments, rebuttals, quips and informative phraseology, expertly chosen to be posted in context with pre-set timed responses?

Yes.

Pocari Sweat

Err ... which is it, database, or super prog?

Adam

Pocari Sweat wrote:

Err ... which is it, database, or super prog?

Top secret information. Who have you been talking to?

Pocari Sweat

Mmmmph ... ahem ... mm.

Vokes

Femmy wrote:

next we will all be singing something like this

Hah! That's made my day

Feral Mutant

Seriously though, Ruu isn'ta robot. He has bipedal movements so the correct term is computerised automaton.

Collie D

German music is just wrong!

challengemaster

abetarrush wrote:

"I know a bot, his name is RUU, RUU is his name..."

haha, anyone else remember dat german techno pop Anna the Bot

that made me lol

Black Swan

The Ruu Bot has a sense of humour. A major improvement over HAL in the 2001 Space Odyssey.

BlitzKrieg

Collie D wrote:

German music is just wrong!

it's swedish. (i think)



On a side note, could Ruu become Skynet?


If Ruu is skynet does that make WWman the terminator?

and bubbles john conner?

Collie D

BlitzKrieg wrote:

it's swedish. (i think)



On a side note, could Ruu become Skynet?


If Ruu is skynet does that make WWman the terminator?

and bubbles john conner?

Nah, don't think it's Swedish, know a bit of it and didn't recognise anything but could bne wrong, loking at the video, is that Amsterdam? Crap, whatever it was.

BlitzKrieg

its not german either.

I was going by the comments that it was swedish (hence th i think)

but pretty sure its not german.

Could it be Dutch?


Swedish


viola

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basshunter

Ruu_Old

Bubbs would the T-1000, he keeps coming back.;)
In conclusion, I am* a bot. I fooled you all, sorry. Regarding why I always seem to be online, well I am 6 hours behind Irish time so it looks that way and as many of you know. I like posting here because it keeps me in touch with things back in Ireland. I always try to be helpful, there is nothing else to it. If you have a problem, if you have an issue with me (or anything else) PM and sort it out. Simple as that.:)


*not...or am I?:eek: