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ledhack.orgNext up: A Stallman slack bot that interjects into any conversations that mention "Linux" to remind everyone that it's "GNU/Linux"
4chan's technology board had exactly this running for some time, with some extra features. It ended up being banned.
If anyone wants to reuse it, the source code is on Github: https://github.com/stallmaninterjector/rms-on-steroids/blob/...
Sounds like a funny idea for a reddit bot.
At least one tech-oriented IRC channel has this, probably dozens more.
At first I was suspicious of this.. Slack sends every channel message out to be parsed by a script? That's not good! But once I looked at the source it all made sense. Yes, in order to operate properly you need to be sending every message in a channel to heroku so that it can do the .05% probability matching and not give a reply every time (or only on specific keywords). This is how most slack web hooks work.
Looking at the source is very educational! I can't wait to take this whole solution and modify it with some company-specific features. It's really a wonderful introduction into using this Slack feature and to Heroku as well. Thanks for posting!
Let me know what you do with it. :)
trying it out. thanks.
How did it go? :)
Haven't seen it pop up yet. Most of us post screenshots on that channel where I set it up. Will check the code to see why.