[Asterisk-Users] IRC Etiquette

[avizion]

Quoting Kevin Walsh <kevin at cursor.biz>:
> Joseph Finley [jfinley at prcontrol.com] wrote:
> > Maybe someone can run a FAQ Bot in the channel as other channels do.  As
> > soon as you join, the Bot /msg's you a brief list of commands &
> > instructions on how to ask for help or resourced to look for.
> >
> That would be extremely annoying for people who know how to quit an
> unused IRC client.  People who camp out in the channel all year wouldn't
> be affected by the noisy bot, of course.  They would also not "benefit"
> from the automated entry message.
>
> I send back an automated message in response to a /msg.  That might
> result in a /msg loop from if the bot sends unsolicited messages and
> then responds to replies.  I know of several other people who have
> resorted to sending an auto-response to unsolicited /msg text, so the
> bot's designers would have to keep that sort of thing in mind.

I would say that a short precise msg on join would be a great and useful
feature. This is ofcourse meant for new users who at least see this once - even
if they indeed camp in the channel.

Also - keep a !help trigger in the topic at all time and make this spew out the
same information. It could even be a private msg to the bot /msg astbot !help
and a full set of commands in order to get started. Just links to the wiki and
the most common startup documents and what not.

And a link to http://www.asteriskdocs.org which personally took me a few days to
find...

Something along those lines would be a great help to get around the annoyance I
seem smell on irc and these lists ;)

Being on EFnet for 9+ years and once in #freebsd to mention a channel out of the
ordinary... the * community is doing very well - also on irc. But it's
certainly a valid point of Mark to make.

My 2 eurocents...

PS: I wont even get into the whole "snapping at newcomers" because common sense
and a little patience will do it in 3-nines of the cases - so let's just behave
like adults and we'll be fine :)

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