Thread:LurkSAR/@comment-5428409-20130321213732/@comment-34029627-20130322213710

I'm going to jump in here just for some clarification:


 * 1) I am not a member of Wikia staff. I have no official capacity with Wikia aside from my position fighting spambots and cross-wiki vandals, and this is a purely volunteer position.
 * 2) URL is not an official Wikia bot. It is my own, personal account, which staff do not have access to. It is flagged as a bot globally, but this is because I use it for global functions in my position as VSTF.
 * 3) I did not enable URL here with any request from any member of Wikia staff - this was all at LurkSAR's request.
 * 4) I am not doing anything malicious with anything URL logs from your chat. A copy of the last hour of logs are kept on my server for debugging purposes only, but these are erased periodically and I have no way of recovering them once they have been removed from the filesystem.
 * 5) I am working on a system to allow you to be individually ignored by URL for Youtube links. This means that you would be able to stop URL from posting information about any and all Youtube links you share in the chat. For those of you who know how to apply your own custom CSS for chat, adding   to your CSS file will hide all messages from URL.

I understand everyone's concern here, but I promise you that I am only trying to provide a service to the users here at MicroWiki. Many people find chat logs useful for catching up on discussions they have missed while away or not present in chat, and others find it useful for making sure no rules are broken while no moderators are around.

If you have any individual concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me via email or via my message wall. I will be happy to address any questions you have.