First there was NattyNatty - looking for new answers to old questions that aren't actually answers, and posting them in a chatroom.
Then there was Sentinel.
Sentinel is the web dashboard for Natty. The bot sends data on all posts it reports to Sentinel, where a permanent record of them is kept.
To aid the moderation effort, Sentinel has some write features built in, including the ability to flag the post directly from its Sentinel record.
Features
- Keeps permanent records of reported posts, including their full text, author, and the detection score the bot assigned them.
- Records feedback on each post (true positive, false positive, etc).
- and obviously, writes to the Stack Exchange API.
Source
Sentinel is built with Ruby on Rails. Its source code is available on GitHub.