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What does 'lobotomized' mean?
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I see this word in commands and in my channels.conf, but I don't know what it means. What does Supybot mean when it says "lobotomized"?
A lobotomy is an operation that removes the frontal lobe of the brain, the part that does most of a person's thinking. To "lobotomize" a bot is to tell it to stop thinking--thus, a lobotomized bot will not respond to anything said by anyone other than its owner in whatever channel it is lobotomized in.
The term is certainly suboptimal, but remains in use because it was historically used by certain other IRC bots, and we wanted to ease the transition to Supybot from those bots by reusing as much terminology as possible.
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