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#Is anyone planning on mentioning this at some community forum? Or are we disregarding the entirety of the bot policy for this?

: <span style="font-family:Broadway">[[User:Mr.Z-man|Mr.]][[User talk:Mr.Z-man|'''''Z-'''man'']]</span> 20:32, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

My response:

#No. I'm not familiar with the bug reporting process, and have been extremely busy today, so don't have the time to do bring myself up to speed with it. I was going to do so tomorrow, after I've handed the draft of my dissertation in.

#Shirik says that the bot only scans one or two ports, so I assume that it does not disrupt another network. However, you are right insofar as nobody has explicitly asked the toolserver admins.

#Given the urgency of the situation with respect to the user that is vandalising and taking up a lot of our time, this was intended to be a quick stop-gap measure. It's my hope that this bot is quickly made redundant by a fix to the torblock extension, thus making extended community discussion redundant.

--[[User:Deskana|Deskana]] [[User talk:Deskana|(talk)]] 20:42, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

:With regards to the toolserver comment: I have talked to the toolserver admins and they're inclined to dislike the activity pending a discussion on the mailing list. This is not an issue as I have a server on which this can run. As for the problem with the TorBlock extension, I essentially echo what Deskana said. --[[User:Shirik|<span style="color:#005">Sh</span><span style="color:#007">i</span><span style="color:#009">r</span><span style="color:#00A">ik</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Shirik|<span style="color:#88C">Questions or Comments?</span>]])</small> 20:47, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

*'''Comment:''' I don't doubt the urgency of this situation, but still have misgivings about the way this is being rushed through without proper discussion. The situation of a non-admin operating an adminbot will make many editors understandably uneasy. &mdash;&nbsp;Martin <small>([[User:MSGJ|MSGJ]]&nbsp;·&nbsp;[[User talk:MSGJ|talk]])</small> 21:07, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

**I'm sure, though now it seems that there wasn't any point even filing this request, since we'll probably end up having the tor block extension fixed before we actually get this bot "approved". In future, I know how to handle such situations. --[[User:Deskana|Deskana]] [[User talk:Deskana|(talk)]] 21:15, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

**{{ec}} '''Comment''' I do not disagree with you that it could make some people uneasy, and I want the community's input on this. I apologize that this seems rushed and fragmented, but half of the discussion about this has occurred on BAG's IRC channel and half of it has occurred here. One of the things that has come up in IRC that has not yet been transcribed here is how to inform the community about this ongoing discussion; I do agree it is advisable to keep the community informed of this. Where to bring this up, though, has as of yet been left open. Should you have any suggestions, please feel free to throw them out there. --[[User:Shirik|<span style="color:#005">Sh</span><span style="color:#007">i</span><span style="color:#009">r</span><span style="color:#00A">ik</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Shirik|<span style="color:#88C">Questions or Comments?</span>]])</small> 21:16, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Given the lack of response from anyone regarding whether or not the [[mw:Extension:TorBlock|TorBlock extension]] has an open bug, I have filed [[bugzilla:23321|issue 23321]] regarding the problem. --[[User:Shirik|<span style="color:#005">Sh</span><span style="color:#007">i</span><span style="color:#009">r</span><span style="color:#00A">ik</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Shirik|<span style="color:#88C">Questions or Comments?</span>]])</small> 21:30, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

{{BotWithdrawn}} Werdna has made a fix to the problematic component that was causing the TorBlock extension to not operate properly. Accordingly, this bot should no longer be necessary and I'm going to withdraw it. Thanks! --[[User:Shirik|<span style="color:#005">Sh</span><span style="color:#007">i</span><span style="color:#009">r</span><span style="color:#00A">ik</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Shirik|<span style="color:#88C">Questions or Comments?</span>]])</small> 23:28, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

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