Reduce spam in general chat

ddiomedi2906 / CC3201Bot

Discord Bot for supporting group work in courses.

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Reduce spam in general chat #7

Open ddiomedi2906 opened 3 years ago

ddiomedi2906 commented 3 years ago

Proposed by Diego Contreras. Please let me know if I am missing something.

Currently, we have the !list-open command that allows students to see all open groups as a list in the general chat (which everyone can see). Given that everyone can invoke this command, general chat may get a bit spammy and it may lose its purpose to inform people of the current state of the groups.

The first solution is to redirect this message list to the private message of the invoker with the bot.

ddiomedi2906 commented 3 years ago

Adding some of my thoughts on this:

If we implement the first solution, we need to have a configuration flag to turn this feature on/off (similar to the turn broadcast on/off flag).
Another solution may be to have an exclusive channel for outputting this information instead of its private messages (thinking in we don't want to spam DM either).