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