Not sure if this is a good idea or not, just saw it in a different bot so wanted to throw it out there.
Basically just the first time a user joins the room, have the bot send a PM with a customizable welcome message, including maybe the bot help links, etc. I guess sort of like an extended topic. You could get the message again with #welcome and send it to someone with #welcome <nick> similar to the way we do #help <nick> now.
Might be annoying though, and not convinced of the utility of it. Might want to add a new feature to ignore certain nicks first before going live with something like this.
Not sure if this is a good idea or not, just saw it in a different bot so wanted to throw it out there.
Basically just the first time a user joins the room, have the bot send a PM with a customizable welcome message, including maybe the bot help links, etc. I guess sort of like an extended topic. You could get the message again with
#welcome
and send it to someone with#welcome <nick>
similar to the way we do#help <nick>
now.Might be annoying though, and not convinced of the utility of it. Might want to add a new feature to ignore certain nicks first before going live with something like this.