Hagerman

If you are here to suggest implementing a delay in HagermanBot signing comments, please read through my archives before posting. As best described by Gurch the reason HagermanBot signs immediately is... A lot of users like to reply to messages left on their talk page in the same place, rather than going to the other user's page, to stop discussions being fragmented. Suppose the bot is set to wait 30 seconds before signing a comment. Now suppose User A leaves a message on User B's talk page, but forgets to sign. Within seconds of User A saving the edit, User B has seen a big orange bar and clicked on it. After a few more seconds, he's scrolled to the bottom of his talk page and hit the section edit link to reply. Unless pages are loading particularly slowly he will likely do this within 30 seconds. While User B is typing the message, the 30 seconds expires and HagermanBot signs User A's comment. User B finishes his reply a couple of minutes later and hits Save. Up pops the edit conflict screen; User B is confused and after a little investigation finds HagermanBot caused the edit conflict. User B comes to this page and moans about the bot. You may also opt out of the bot's ministrations.

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Bot still being a pain

Enough with this bot already. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.144.60.229 (talk • contribs)

email

Hi! I enabled my e-mail address

Does it have to be so fast?

Many times I'll notice I forgot to sign and immediately go back to add a sig, only to find that Hagermanbot has beat me to it. Could you put even a short delay on the bot to give users a chance to fix the sig themselves? Even 30 seconds or a minute would probably be plenty. --Milo H Minderbinder 22:58, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Read the top of this page. Trebor 22:12, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

The bot

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		Go bot, oh yeah, go bot... Great bot you have; it is one of the most useful thing on Wikipedia, more important than AntiVandal and Orphans. !! The Evil Clown 02:04, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

I think the bot misplaced a sig

Here a user went in and added to his comment, and the bot came in and signed the middle of the comment. *Mishatx*-In\Out 05:55, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Single edit opt-out

I like Hagermanbot going after me in case I miss something. There are cases when I intend to skip signing, such as here and here. Is there a way we could have a single edit opt-out feature? E.g. we could add an <!--opt-out--> html comment. Especially useful for newsletters and stuff. NikoSilver 18:26, 2 March 2007 (UTC)