There's a feature of the bot where @ is prepended to known usernames when piping text from IRC to Slack. However, if someone of slack registers a username like a or the, the bridge becomes quite obnoxious. It seems either the feature of prepending @ should be configurable (on/off) or additionally, to add a blacklist option to the config.json with an array of "do not prepend @" usernames.
There's a feature of the bot where
@
is prepended to known usernames when piping text from IRC to Slack. However, if someone of slack registers a username likea
orthe
, the bridge becomes quite obnoxious. It seems either the feature of prepending@
should be configurable (on/off) or additionally, to add a blacklist option to the config.json with an array of "do not prepend @" usernames.https://github.com/ekmartin/slack-irc/blob/master/lib/bot.js#L163