I've never been quite sure whether to insist it be banned or to read along the chat.
I think I settled on just clientmuting it most of the time.
Yeah, I've had it respond directly to me as well, and I've actually seen it play a few games. It seems to be an actual person who always runs a bot.
It's a weird gimmick and I don't know how I feel about it, but I guess for that reason alone it is at least interesting. I've never really seen anyone else use a too-helpful internet encyclopedia as their online persona before Fact Sphere.