I want to code up a bot or set of bots that automates the more trivial activities a game moderator does.
However, there are a lots of ways I can do this, and a lot of things I can make it do.
For this reason, I want your help making decisions about the way I'll actually do this.
So that when it's all done you'll actually want to use it.
I want to know...
1.
What would you want a 'ModBot' to do for you?
Can you sort these in order of priorities? How do existing resources for these activities currently fail you? For example, maybe you really want a Bot to do votecounting for you, or maybe you'd appreciate having an easier time assigning and sending out role pms. There's not much that game moderators do that a modbot can't do (besides, like, creating Scummie-winning flavor or setups or stuff like that - though generic flavor and setups are of course possible).
2.
How do you want to
interact
with 'ModBot'?
For example, do you want it to be an app in your desktop? Maybe a Google Form you fill out and edit? Something that controls your account to complete accounts, or a bot account you "co-mod" games with? A unitary resource, or a set of tools? There are many more possibilities besides these.
3.
How should Modbot's particular functions be designed?
For example, there are good ways to post vote counts and bad ones. We should work out all these issues before or as I'm coding them.
In my next post, I'll list some of my own ideas for how we could achieve this, and begin a catalogue of your ideas. Supposing there's enough interest, I'll get to work and hopefully have *key* ModBot functions ready in the next few weeks, if not sooner.