On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 8:09 PM, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:
> #welcome is not necessary there is already a bot in place that provides a
> welcome message and displays a command for help for newcomers

There have been some requests to remove the bot.
But I see that you've responded to feedback to tune its behaviour,
so I'm happy to wait to see how that panes out.
But oh! the irony...

�� ��jecisc-Yesterday at 8:16 PM
�� ��Can you delete this level thing with the bot please?(edited)

�� ��Mee6BOT-Yesterday at 8:16 PM
�� ��GG @jecisc, you just advanced to level 3 !


btw, where is the bot hosted?


> #help is not necessary too, Discord has a search capability which could be
> potentially used from inside a Pharo image but again the question is who is
> going to do this

Its not just about searchability.�� Its a social barrier thing.
If the regulars are rolling through some deep discussion,
a newcomer may hesitate to jump in with a side topic.

If you want to condense channels, then probably the #mooc and #help
could be rolled into one.

cheers -ben

>
> #mooc , I am not against this idea but again we had a student yesterday
> asking for help that is following Mooc , I had no problem providing it and
> he had not issues with the process of getting his question aswered in
> #general channel. If he asked at #mooc I would have missed it because I am
> not going to keep a mind in all channels.
>
> For general questions I would prefer , even if they are mooc related , to be
> at #general channel, lets not fragment our discussions for little
> justification,
> but for very mooc discusions, like where to find a specific
> teach or reports of errors in mooc it makes sense to have a mooc channel.
>
> My policy is to point an admin for each channel , channel admis are
> different than us general admins, we have full power they can only

>
> 1)manage message in a specific channel
> 2) manage webhooks (for example github commits or rss feeds)
> 3) create instant invites
>
> so if there is one person that is willing to become a mooc admin i will
> create the channel and add his as admin
>
> On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 5:33 AM Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> wrote:
>>
>> Could we have additional channels:
>>
>>�� ��#welcome - which would be the generally advertised invite URL.�� A
>> read-only channel that informs about community rules and summaries available
>> channels etc (maybe including hidden channels and who to ask for invite)
>>
>>�� ��#help - To be referenced from in-Image Help Browser. Maybe later have an
>> in-Image chat tool that connects to this channel.�� How cool would it be to
>> have live help from within the IDE?
>>
>>�� ��#mooc - So people can maybe look back through history before asking
>> questions, and also people further along might help others less advanced ==>
>> more participation
>>
>> cheers -ben