mooBot is a chat moderator bot made for cleaning up your chat, making it a friendlier place without the need for your constant interaction and attention.

The bot can among other things be made to trigger commands that display information to your viewers. This information could be, as an example, links you would like to advertise, but also dynamic data like a countdown, or maybe updated information about what game you are currently playing on Xbox Live. In these cases you don't have to change anything, the bot just fetches the correct data and displays it.

If also enabled you can automatically remove spammers the instant they break your rules. You just select what kind of spam you want to get rid of and the bot handles the rest. With the bot handling all the repetitive spam automatically, your human moderators can focus their attention on better things. If you want to protect specific users from getting removed by the bot, you can either permanently add them as a regular, or you can temporarily permit them to break your rules. You can also permanently allow certain URLs, so users who link to for example your website will not be removed by the bot.

The spam filters are set up to punish repeat offenders, by giving them a fair warning first, and then a ten minute timeout on the second offence. This means that no one will ever be permanently blocked from your chat, always giving them a chance to behave if they wish to. As everyone is punished equally there is no question if rules were broken or not, and the bot also works as a perfect scapegoat, keeping angry spammers off your back.

All the available functionality can easily, from your chat, be enabled, disabled or in some cases tailored to your broadcasting style, making it fit to how you want your own chat to be.

Setting up mooBot is very straightforward; all you really have to do is learn how to use the commands, and then use the join-command to send moobot to your chat.
To use commands you prefix them with the character "!", like "!moobot", which will return a command list. In the list you will likely see the command "!moobot join", which will send moobot to your chat. Type this command into a chat that has moobot in it, and go to your own chat to set up moobot.

When moobot has joined your chat you should read through the features and command list to figure out what you would like to enable.
When moobot says a command description like "Usage: !moobot commands [add/remove/example]" it means that you can use the command like "!moobot commands add" OR "!moobot commands remove" OR "!moobot commands example". As you can see, the "[" and "]" characters are separators and should be removed when you are issuing the command.

Play with the commands and get a feel for how they work. Also remember to read the command list in detail as many features are not enabled by default. If you have any problems either contact someone who has a moobot in their chat, or ask on twitter @themoobot.