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Welcome to NordicBots.com
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Welcome to NordicBots. We are the biggest free bot provider on QuakeNet serving more than 20.000 users in more than 3.000 channels.
Requests can be made through the Web Request. However, before you request a bot please read our Rules carefully! If you need help while using our service please join #NordicBots.
If you are new to our bots, you might want to read our multi-language documentation.
Also, if you are not a community member yet, you should create an account so you can download various scripts, place comments, use our forum, etc.
Note: Please respect our staff, they work for free and they do it for you. |
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 Latest news
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Posted by TheAvatar at 2008-04-18 02:27:24
This month brings yet another birthday.!
This time we are to celebrate tiidus. Today he reaches the age of 22 years.
Tiidus is also a devoted staff member of NordicBots, but today you should take a day off having a day with your family and friends.
We hope you have wonderful day with lots of nice presents.
We look forward to work with you for another year!
All the best from the rest of the NordicBots staff
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Posted by soczol at 2008-04-09 00:00:00
Yes folks, that's right. Petyyy has reached the age of 23 today!
Ever since he joined NordicBots, Petyyy has handled a lot of requests. His peak was in 2005 when he handled more than 4.000 requests, and he has been progressing ever since.
He recently reached the astonishing (and in some way magic) milestone of 10.000 requests!
This is more than 15% of our total number of requests (since we started counting them in 2004) and has (so far :-)) not yet been reached by anyone else.
Petyyy, you are a great and devoted contributor to our service. Thanks for supporting us for all these years and congratulations with your milestone, you deserve it!
We hope you have a great day, gets loads of presents, and send (each and everyone of us) a piece of pie!
~ Your friends at NordicBots.
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Having other bots, the rules explained
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Posted by Petyyy at 2008-01-24 20:26:47
In the last few years we've had to suspend a lot of channels for having other bots.
We suspect that many users simply don't know which bots are allowed and which aren't. So, we have made this post to hopefully make things a bit more clear.
First of all, there are several kinds of bottypes: Stats bots, Fun bots, News bots, Game bots, Service bots, Gather bots, QuakeNet bots (Q/S, fishbot, etc).
Our rules are very simple. We allow all of those bots except service bots (clearly, we do allow QuakeNet bots).
Note that some botservices have chosen to combine several functionalities into one bot, e.g. a fun+servicebot. These bots are not allowed either, as they are still service bots.
Our system automatically detects these service bots. This means that if you have one on your channel, sooner or later you will find the bot in your channel to be suspended.
A lot of people have wondered why it is exactly that we don't allow other service bots. Here are some of the main reasons why we don't allow service bots:
- Botfights
Bringing in other service bots usually means there'll be botfights sooner or later.
For example: the other service bot tries to kick/ban our bot for voicing someone, which will in turn unban itself and rejoin, etc.
We clearly don't like botfights. Our bots are not made to protect themselves from any attacks, so fighting against other bots is useless.
- One service bot is enough
We strongly believe that channels don't need more than one service bot.
Bringing in other service bots leaves a lot of duplicate/colliding functionality. We think our bots are good enough to be used on their own. If you feel otherwise, you are free to try bots from another botservice, but then you can't have our bot.
Note: Just to make things clear; these rules only go for bots from other botservices, creating your own bot is fine.
We hope this post has helped you understand which bots are allowed, and why some bots aren't. If you have any questions feel free to ask on #NordicBots.
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Bots G-lined (banned) from QuakeNet (update)
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Posted by TheAvatar at 2008-01-10 09:35:59
Due to a netsplit last night, with the server the bots were on involved, about 1/3 of our bots got G-lined.
QuakeNet refused to help out, so we will have to wait for the G-line to expire. When that will be is not known, as they wont inform about G-line expiration times.
The other part of the bots will just be idling in your channel for the time being, not responding to messages or public commands. For the time being, the bots will have an away message set, which can be seen with /WHOIS .
Away: Yes : NordicBots Natasha bot is currently not available - #NordicBots
When things are back up, the message will disappear.
We expect the G-line to last anything between a few hours up to one month.
An update will be posted when we have any news to provide.
Update 16:20 (GMT+1): The G-line has expired and all bots are reconnecting to IRC. They should be in your channel within a few minutes.
All suspends have been extended by one day so you have one more day to contact us, if you want your channel to be unsuspended.
Thanks for your support and patience!
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Posted by tiidus at 2007-12-31 15:17:56
NordicBots staff wishes you a Happy New Year 2008!
The past year has been quite a hard year for us as we lost of our long-term QuakeNet trust in January and caused a three day g-line on our bots.
Later on we were victims of those not so nice ddos attacks.
Luckily not everything that happened the past year was bad, the addition of a few new staff members and a bunch of new bot features can be considered as good things. :)
Finally I would like to thank the whole staff team for this year, it's really a pleasure doing this with you guys. :)
Happy New Year everybody! :)
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