karmabot for slack

[jjasghar]

As soon as @nathan-weinberg did this: https://instruct-lab.slack.com/archives/C06USKLQSMS/p1715977001905719?thread_ts=1715972047.835649&cid=C06USKLQSMS

It is obvious that we need a karmabot because, well, we do. There is one from Target, https://github.com/target/karmabot, but it requires a MongoDB instance and some set-up work.

It may also be neat to get our models to look for the ++ when someone is bumped up and it says something nice.

This is very much a "nice to have," but setting this up and getting it working for our project could lead to some neat hacking/streaming sessions.

[jjasghar]

It seems IBM cloud has a hosted MongoDB instance: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/free/databases?utm_content=SRCWW&p1=Search&p4=43700074425897013&p5=p&p9=58700008195624870&gclid=CjwKCAjwo6GyBhBwEiwAzQTmc2zU3qI-kdoyEIo4e9Aynk1y2_eg-eIfdTylOmOsCOskZYGF3S0t8hoCGykQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

[hickeyma]

@jjasghar Don't want to be a kill joy but don't think we should be adding bots that are not necessary.

[jjasghar]

You'd be suprised on how much a simple karma bot can help build up communities and gives good "kudos" to people in when we chat through async communication(s). /me takes off my IRC hat

[hickeyma]

Limit the bots, limit the attack vector. Just saying, thats all.

[russellb]

attack vector for what? the logs of our wide open chat instance? :)

[lhawthorn]

I am +1 on a kudos bot for our InstructLab slack, but feel the enthusiasm for same should be tempered by getting to clarity around #279 and whether we want to keep on keepin' on with Slack.

Regardless of bot or no bot, @jjasghar's comment raise the excellent meta-topic about how we ensure that our community members feel seen and appreciated for all that they do.

Something for @cybette to consider as part of our long term community architecture strategy for InstructLab along with the rest of our community maintainer team (and all community humans who have thoughts thereon).

[hickeyma]

attack vector for what? the logs of our wide open chat instance? :)

@russellb Do we know what damage a vulnerability in a bot could cause?

[hickeyma]

I agree with the overall being friendly and appreciative to the community members.

[cybette]

I think at some point we could have a more comprehensive recognition program that is not dependent on a single platform. If it's not too much trouble to spin up a karmabot for the time being, I'm +1 for it, even as we noodle about #279

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[jjasghar]

closed, won't happen any time soon.