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dreeves / omnibot

Discord/Slack bot to play a dictionary guessing game and other things
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Add/remove people when the auction is already started #122

Open jakecoble opened 1 year ago

jakecoble commented 1 year ago

It would be pretty nice! Sometimes you forget to add someone, or you include someone who's AWOL and you want to conclude the bidding without them. You can do /bid abort in that case (#130) but that's kinda weird.

Maybe it's as simple as "/bid add @alice @bob" and "/bid remove @carol @dave"? And when you do a bid-remove it checks again if everyone in the new roster has bid, in which case it immediately ends the auction and gives the results?

If we do this then before closing it, let's consider whether /bid abort should be modified to not show partial results anymore. See the background section of #127.

Cognata

Verbata: sealed-bid auctions, the /bid command,

dreeves commented 1 year ago

Related idea (just spitballing for now): Instead of @-mentioning each person, have some syntax to say how many people are participating. As soon as that many bidders have bid, the auction ends. We have a web-based auction interface for family auctions that works this way.