Available features to test
!events displays a few upcoming events
!event 2020-05-17 14:00 my cool event - create a new event announcement... date and time in GMT, event name maximum 37 characters
Turning things on and off
This is for now based on a democracy AI that will do as the community wants if it is united.
!events off (stops the bot from answering to !events)
!events on (restarts the bot answering to !events)
Features I would like in EOL - Tell me what you think
!lev or !rec (registers score, and maximum one time per battle if someone has voted, display a oneliner such as)
- lev score 7.5 (3 votes), avg 6.99 (394 votes), last10 7.4 (15 votes)
- kumiorava 5 yrs 100 days ago
--- below is history where I was childish and embarassed myself, lied, ignored and made ridiculous arguments (about !event and !events) - although I felt it was important to make a stand - enjoy ---
THE NEW FEATURE IS
To be able to see and create upcoming events and announcements inside eol (use !events and !event in eol-chat).
The reason I made this is
Because I have been hosting some new events recently, and I felt it was hard to reach out to people. For this reason I had this idea of an organic way to reach out, without the friction of having to go to both mopolauta and discord to find something. My experience is that not the same people are active in all places, and specifically that many players on eol are not active in the chats. My solution is organic because whenever anyone is interested in what's going on everybody else will see it too.
Also, the community needs a lot of life, and anyone's inspiration is a possibility to give more life. It should be welcomed with curiosity before complaining, especially by those whose actions have an impact. It's always disappointing to come to mopolauta with so little activity, and as I noticed now it seems mods are contributing to that.
Why it matters ty try this out before deciding if it's good
I have a background in making software, advertising and creating events. All of these. Professionally. And this is something that for me seems like a good experiement for the whole community of contest creators to reach out. I'm not pretending to be God and say how it plays out, but I would like the community to be able to test it out to see how it goes.
Why it really matters to try this out
Also, this feature could be a part of okeol, and for that to be good it's always, ALWAYS, best to try a few things out in reality first. This is exactly what is being done here, and probably the only possibility to do so. New features don't grow on trees. (They are made by hard working free-workers who then get banned without being considered, being bullied and so on).
The feature in okeol will not be in chat, but the feature itself can level up as it is now, suboptimally in chat.
What I expected from the community
That everyone who is active gets a say of how this works and how it feels.
What I got out of this
pawq (who apparently doesn't host any contests, but still can be the judge what's necessary for contest creators without asking them)
@ribot if it's used often we'll simply ban it and that'll be that
- it'll need some adjustments to stay in EOL, atm it's very spammy and abusable
- ideally only eolmods should be able to add events/deadlines, and ideally it should send the list in pms, but I guess the latter not passibel? (this idea will make nobody allowed to use it.. even if you are so hungry to have power over others, this will just kill the new feature. nobody knows who are mods, and to ask them first.. what world do you live in?)
at the moment yours is already spammy (a new feature being spammy for a few days can actually create some fun for the community, i dunno what it would take for you to consider that, but without allowing this we will never know the good side of the new feature, thanks to you)
- imo it'll be either: popular and extremely spammy, or: forgotten and unused, can't see a way for it to be a genuinely useful (and used) tool without getting really spammy (thanks for saying your opinion, but what's with the exaggerated negativity... as a mod... to new-born community contributions?)
(claiming my arguments are nonsense, then retorts with: are you drunk)
Kopaka
at least should be max 1 line per event
maybe some limit to how often it can be posted, how many each can add
there are some limits like that already, but the mods didn't seem to have any curiosity of my ideas or possibilities
Direct criticism to pawq
The thing about moderators is that they should be serving the community. I feel that you just stated your opinion as you know better, without asking a single question of possibilities or what I was thinking. Your initial reactions were totally reasonable, and good as feedback. But as you said: you will ban it if it's used - you used it as reasons for banning - as first reaction. The fact that you would make that decisison without letting people try the feature out (which is the only way for creating a good feature) proves to me that you don't have what it takes to be a mod.
You did not say anything as if it were your opnion, but as you made the decision for the community. I could be wrong about it, but if you're speaking as a mod, as you did, you should make this clear. Unless you like to abuse your power over others.
To be of service means to listen and be curious, not act as if you know better about things you know nothing about. You think I haven't thought this through without even asking me, which is just plain lame. However I'm not convinced you're the right person to talk to about this, as you did lack a lot in considering other possibilities than your own opinions.
Don't flash the banning-card the first chance you get to community contributors. You should be banned for doing this.
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For now I have outlined the basics and then I will see if it's worth putting more efforts into this.
ps. If the mods hadn't made the decision for you without asking, I could have a poll here with different options for what to do with this feature. My earlier post too could have been made better with a poll.