Team,
I saw this suggested on discord this morning and wanted to make sure it didn't disappear without some consideration.
With the changes to discord bot only accepting command in the #bot-commands channel, the error message that is displayed is unintuitive and confusing, which leads to players issuing the same command in multiple other channels and increasing the error spam.
There are a couple of elegant solutions to this problem (I think).
1. Simply change the message to say that "Bot commands are only allowed in the #bot-command channel." At least the player will know where to go so that they can issue the command and get the help they need.
2 (Better!) Have MEE6 output the command help immediately in the bot-command channel (observing the command timer) along with the message that they should switch to the bot-command channel to read the help.
3 (More betterer?) Let's face it, the same help requests get asked multiple times a day. Maybe in addition to outputting the help in the #bot-command channel, MEE6 could open up a private text channel with the user and (also) output the info there. That might reduce the number of redundant bot invocations from the same player.
:hugs:
I saw this suggested on discord this morning and wanted to make sure it didn't disappear without some consideration.
With the changes to discord bot only accepting command in the #bot-commands channel, the error message that is displayed is unintuitive and confusing, which leads to players issuing the same command in multiple other channels and increasing the error spam.
There are a couple of elegant solutions to this problem (I think).
1. Simply change the message to say that "Bot commands are only allowed in the #bot-command channel." At least the player will know where to go so that they can issue the command and get the help they need.
2 (Better!) Have MEE6 output the command help immediately in the bot-command channel (observing the command timer) along with the message that they should switch to the bot-command channel to read the help.
3 (More betterer?) Let's face it, the same help requests get asked multiple times a day. Maybe in addition to outputting the help in the #bot-command channel, MEE6 could open up a private text channel with the user and (also) output the info there. That might reduce the number of redundant bot invocations from the same player.
:hugs: