Rodney (bot)

Rodney is the bot which announces deaths on the #nethack channel. He also has a simple database in which users can record useful information for each other; many good tips and advice are contained therein.

Functionality

Notable parts of Rodney's functionality:

• Game announcements. Whenever somebody ends a game on nethack.alt.org (whether by death, ascension, escape, or #quit), Rodney will announce that fact in the channel. It is considered good form to remark "Go Team Ant!" when somebody dies to an ant.
• learndb. Any member of the channel can view/add/remove/edit items in Rodney's database. This is a useful repository of information as well as humour.

Maintainers

• Rodney used to be named Izchak when he dwelt on IRCnet. It isn't currently known who maintained him at the time.
• paxed has maintained Rodney for some time.
• Eidolos is currently working on upgrading Rodney.

Links

• Source code of the current version of Rodney
• Source code of Eidolos' development version
• #nethack IRC channel