Using hwbot for moderating the benchmark threads

Hello all,

I'm sent here by flexkill @ bleedinedge. He suggests using hwbot for moderating your benchmark threads.

hwbot is a spider that gathers benchmark results which are formatted like this [hwbot] score - system description [/hwbot] in the benchmark topics, and posts a ranking in the first post of the topic. The best score of the top 10 members are used to calculate the team average, which is used to compete against other teams.

Example topics monitored by the hwbot at be:
http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=81

All submitted results are used to put up the hall of fame, which is more up to date than futuremarks' orb.

The results are also used to calculate the processor or videocard statistics.

Results can be monitored by team moderators or users themselves, after registering at hwbot.org. This service is entirely free.


You guys interested in joining the hwbot rankings?

I told you guys I was gonna get you this. Now we need mod or Admin to make the decision and make it happen.

That looks.... awesome.

Updating all those threads is a pain in the @$$, and it hasn't been getting done much with 1/2 away again.




So, how does this work? We just have to use the [hwbot] [/hwbot] tags and you have to set the spider to search here? That'd get the right info, but how are the threads themselves updated? I'm guessing that takes a cron job on our end?



It sounds like from past threads that there's a lot of interest in this, and it would sure save some time/headaches, but we need to know what it takes to implement it, and then see if the admins are willing.


Thanks for stopping by hwbot!


[Edit] You might to have a look at the processor statistics, it doesn't look like everything is always totaled right - in some of the classes there are more or less processors in the subgroups than the header indicates.

No, if you supply the bot a username and password, and a post to edit, it edits the posts after it has scanned the thread by itself. No cronjob or anything required at your end, for your forumsoftware point of view the bot acts as an ordinary visitor.



The number doesn't reflect the amount of processors in the group, but the amount of results matched to processors in that group. : )

One thing i've forgot to mention: as the bot edits a given post with an up to date ranking, the system won't work if your forum is configured to have a timelimit on editing your posts... but this is very rarely the case.

Frederik

That may be a problem because this is one of those rare forums where you can only edit your posts up to 30 days later... I guess that the admins will have to be a little bit lenient if we want to implement hwbot for the bench threads. Apparently it's not all that easy to make single posts editable for a longer period of time.

Doh! Bad luck

Than you would have no other choice but the make the hwbot user a moderator of this subforum.

Yes... there was an incident on one of our sister forums, a disgruntled member went and deleted pretty much all their posts and all the useful content in them... since then, the 30-day restriction has been in place.

I don't know if making a new moderator would fly, but we could try it, or I suppose use an existing account, but there are obvious concerns with either of those.


I'm wondering actually if there might be another subforum formed, one for the benchmark scores threads and one for discussion and whatever else...

Meh, I'm just rambling. I'd like to get some other people involved... I'll contact some of the other mods and then go on to the admins with some possibilities.

You can trust Hbot Hbot has had mod status at our site along with me on our bench section of the forum. Never a problem once....just quietly go's about it's job. I hope you guys can make it happen...as this will greatly increase your member participation...and probably help y'all grow as well.

It sounds a very simple but effective idea that would certainly freshen up our bench forum, but more importantly save a heck of a lot of work for ½.

Surely it wouldnt be too much trouble to setup a subforum and provide the necessary permissions for that forum, without the risk of breaching security across the board.

Lets hope the admins go for it!

as long as it's 100% in the control of the admins, and no one but them knows the password, and such, then i see no problem with it. it obviously can't use the name hwbot anymore since you registered it, and now have the email, recovery, etc. for that username.

You may change my password and use this account, i'll re-register under my own nickname.

Done : )

If you give me an email address of an admin/mod, i'll hapily hand over the hwbot user pwd.

Try contacting JC as he is an admin, or any member in red (mod).


Ice.

I would but i don't have the right to PM them or see their mailaddress. Are they in the witness protection program or sth?

Oops...you need 10 posts to be able to pm members.

Arch, who has posted earlier in this thread, is a mod, so I'm assuming he is taking it up with the admins.