Thread:Puffyy/@comment-24462004-20160914005951/@comment-32727195-20160915000227

I've actually been thinking about this too. I started out thinking a plan up in my head about how it might work in my head a while back.

I could use it to undo edits made by a user if they were made quickly or make it undo edits that take away a large amount of text. Unfortunately I can't do too much about vandals making single and/or medium/small edits. However, in that situation I could just undo the one edit, or undo all the edits by that user (if it was multiple).

As for it being automatic; I can't really do that. Bots need something to keep them running. In my bot's case, it's my computer. If I turn it off, the bot stops working. I don't own a server to keep it online either. This is pretty much the biggest road block with making a bot. I could just run the bot whenever I come online, but then it's not automatic, is it?

Also, since we disabled edits from users with no account (anons), it's not that big of a problem anyways. The problem with anons is that their name is their IP, which is a bunch of numbers (38.839.56.478 for example). Even though the name is technically their IP, for some reason, it shows up as "Wiki Contributor" in most places on the wiki anyways. Makes it hard to track them down in a lot of cases, and gives them pretty much no consequence for vandalism.

tl;dr: I can only run the bot when I'm online, I can only catch certain types of edits with it, and vandals are rare now anyways.

That's all I really have to say about this.