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I for one do not find Oracle to be helpful as the advice is only marginally better than the classic Magic 8-ball.
As it triggers the email function of threads I follow I find it to be actively harmful as it spams me with what I find to be unhelpful posts and then blocks emails related to actual posts by the other members of the thread unless I engage with it to return to the site before someone else posts.
It says it can be ignored and yet:
Proposed solutions in order of my preference:
a) Allow Oracle to be ignored by all persons (not just thread originators) and for this ignore to block emails such that other posts still trigger the emails as they do now even if Oracle has posted. (I'm not sure if this is how ignore would normally work as I've never wanted to ignore an account before!)
b) Have Oracle not trigger the follow emails at all.
c) Have Oracle trigger the emails but not block the next legitimate post in the thread from also triggering an email.
Oracle, this is my journal, and I do not respect your opinion. I do wish if you're trying to warn others, write your comments accordingly.
thanks SoonPeso7
It may not have been clear that this was a test for an AI. I know that its title says it's an AI, but this may not be evident on first reading, and it is not clear this is a test. Also, it is not immediately clear how to opt out, assuming that worked. (I do like the fact that the AI is a moderator, which gives it an official status as coming from the forum, but that is also the problem with trying to put it on an "Ignore List.")
I wrote him and explained what was going on, and I said I would get back to him with the solution of how to exclude his journal from the test.
I think that when Oracle introduces itself, it should say upfront that it is an AI that is being tested, that feedback is welcome, and how to opt out. (It has the AI in its title, and it says how to opt out at the bottom of the post, but I think both should be among the first things anyone reads in the post, at least while it is being tested.)
Also, we can't assume everyone reads this thread and knows what is going on and will post any issues here. So I think it would be a good idea to post a link to your first post about Oracle in this thread (without displaying it in the big box) so they have it easily available if they need it.
Bob.
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Edit: also, not everyone knows how to put someone on Ignore. just wrote after my post in his thread that he couldn't find the "Ignore button." Probably he is not alone, I would say certainly not. (For anyone reading this who doesn't know, left-click on the poster's name in the block to the left of their post and select "Ignore (username)" in the dropdown. That will prevent their being able to post in a thread you are the originator of, and also it will make any posts of theirs anywhere else invisible to you.)
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