denied Remove and Replace GFLBot

[Severely_Artistic 742 / 9,471]

At first, my little shitpost ban request on GFLBot was mainly a joke on how it kept spamming chatbox calling for admins, but now this is annoying.

 

Issue: The intent behind GFLBot is good. It allows admins to be called in chatbox via the server and tells where the problem is. But all GFLBot has done at this point is replace the people asking in chatbox for admin help with itself. It does not tell the admins of the server directly, which means you rely on them seeing chatbox to see a call for admin, which was the problem in the first place.

 

Suggestion: The approach for the solution certainly took the wrong move. Using a forum bot wouldn't make much sense. How about a Steam Bot? Similarly to how bots on trading websites work where they notify users of any news on their websites, this Steam Bot will message steam admins its friended with about any calls for admin from the server. This way, they can be notified more directly.

 

Thanks.

 

Tagging @denros

[denros 776 / 0]

9 minutes ago, Severely_Artistic said:

Suggestion: The approach for the solution certainly took the wrong move. Using a forum bot wouldn't make much sense. How about a Steam Bot? Similarly to how bots on trading websites work where they notify users of any news on their websites, this Steam Bot will message steam admins its friended with about any calls for admin from the server. This way, they can be notified more directly.

 

If we were going to do a steam bot I would need to arrange staff into server admins which is way too hard for a community that is as big as gfl. (You would literally have to have a list of all admin steamids for each server which if you think about it is hard to manage considering how many servers we have). We can't just have friends due to limit of steam friends.

 

9 minutes ago, Severely_Artistic said:

Issue: The intent behind GFLBot is good. It allows admins to be called in chatbox via the server and tells where the problem is. But all GFLBot has done at this point is replace the people asking in chatbox for admin help with itself

 

The bot doesn't only just post in chatbox, it posts in teamspeak help desk as well as our manager+ gfl private discord. It also posts to the server's own discord if the manager has set it up. Saving the user from going on each platform as well as being able to do it straight with a command.

 

I am 100% sure that since the addition of calladmin, servers have received more attention than when we did not have it.

 

[Bigtime 322 / 6,445]

I don't think it spams the shoutbox that bad and if it really bothers you, you can add it to your ignored users and block shouts.

[Mould 154 / 5,948]

I don't see a reason as to why we need to repeal and replace @GFLBot. Although your suggestion does seem excellent on paper, it'd be difficult to actually implement it as @denros has said.

 

Even if its GMod Purge going up in flames most of the time as it seems, there are times when admins are hanging out on the forums doing nothing and can respond rapidly should they be called. However we also get troll calls, most recent followed:

 

warm regards has asked for an admin on GMOD US TTT Minecraft. Reason: (My asshole needs spanking).

 

Although later on in the future it seems like it'll seem funny, the bot is not supposed to be abused in this way and players should know about that. !calladmin is supposed to be for serious matters only and it isnt really the bot's fault for showing up in the chatbox so much, but the players that are using the command on many of the servers that supports it.

 

I see it as useful and enabled me to respond to it when I see a call for one of my servers when I'm hanging around on the server.