Greet new users

[marcog]

12:33 -!- Marve [<email address hidden>] has joined #algorithm
12:34 < Marve> Hi i am new to this site and would like to join this programming
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12:37 -!- Marve [<email address hidden>] has quit [Quit:

Our channel is not extremely busy, so ^ happens more often than we'd like. The bot could greet new members to hopefully avoid some cases.

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

That could be quite freaky :)

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

feature freeze prevails, whether or not we want it

[Max Rabkin (max-rabkin)]

I'm not sure about this feature. A couple things that may make it workable: only talk if the new users says "hi" (the bot shouldn't stop people lurking); wait a few seconds to see if there is any response from humans; and if multiple new users join within a short timespan, greet them all in one message.

Also, isn't this what join notices are for?

[marcog (marco-gallotta)]

> Also, isn't this what join notices are for?

What % of people actually read those? Even worse, what % of n00bs will read it? It's the n00bs this is targeted at after all. :)

[Adrianna Pińska (confluence)]

This sounds like a good feature.

I don't think greeting people who haven't said anything is a problem. Some people may be so n00by that they won't even say anything unless they can see people talking because they feel silly shouting down a dark hole. I know that I've previously quit chatrooms that looked completely dead without saying anything.

Having a bot tell someone stuff about the channel doesn't really stop them from lurking. I've been told that in the proposed implementation the bot only greets people it hasn't seen before.

I'd suggest an option to set a larger number of times people can be seen before they are no longer greeted, to prevent leakage of new users who are also new to IRC and join and quit a channel multiple times out of inexperience or confusion.

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

17:12 < casted> tibid: sdflkjsdfw
17:12 < tibid> casted: What?
17:12 < casted> tumbleweed: ^ maybe you should add to the reply "Maybe ask me for my features"
17:13 < tumbleweed> I'm hesitent about that, but I get what you're saying
17:15 < casted> make it randomnly reply with "ask me about my features"
17:15 < casted> or you can store wethere it has seen a (source, nick) before?
17:15 < casted> *whether