Steve-V/tgg-BotSteve — Issue #108: BotSteve should contain a points system
Author: Steve-V
Created: 2011-12-05 07:09:16+00:00
State: open

(10:45:39 PM) Sgt_Lemming: hey I had a bit of an idea for the bot if you are interested
(10:45:44 PM) BatSteve: Always!
(10:45:45 PM) BatSteve: lay it on me
(10:45:58 PM) Sgt_Lemming: a points system
(10:46:32 PM) Sgt_Lemming: how monks and I and other people do things like "a point if you can give the correct answer to x"
(10:46:56 PM) Sgt_Lemming: so kind of like trivia, but only with user generate questions
(10:47:36 PM) BatSteve: I'm with you
(10:48:08 PM) Sgt_Lemming: just be a way to give people something for answering it other than a cookie from botsteve
(10:48:58 PM) Sgt_Lemming: could make the trigger phrase something like "a point to the first person"
(10:49:17 PM) Sgt_Lemming: then the person who called it confirms it with " correct>
(10:49:25 PM) BatSteve: and then have the bot record the score
(10:49:27 PM) BatSteve: I think I get you
(10:49:31 PM) ***Sgt_Lemming nods
(10:50:08 PM) BatSteve: that's not a half bad idea
(10:50:14 PM) Sgt_Lemming: heh
(10:50:15 PM) Sgt_Lemming: thanks
(10:50:43 PM) BatSteve: Want to help me figure out the details of how it should work?
(10:50:47 PM) Sgt_Lemming: sure
(10:50:53 PM) BatSteve: (not code, just behavior)
(10:51:28 PM) Sgt_Lemming: yeah
(10:51:36 PM) Sgt_Lemming: I'm not much of a coder :-P
(10:51:45 PM) BatSteve: Not a problem. All right, so here we are in channel..
(10:51:50 PM) BatSteve: folk are talking
(10:51:58 PM) BatSteve: someone says...
(10:51:59 PM) BatSteve: ?
(10:52:15 PM) Sgt_Lemming: a point to the first person who can tell me what this picture is
(10:52:20 PM) Sgt_Lemming: people start guessing
(10:52:37 PM) Sgt_Lemming: it's a whojimawhatsit
(10:52:48 PM) Sgt_Lemming: wannabe1987: correct!
(10:53:08 PM) Sgt_Lemming: the bot just looks for ": correct"
(10:53:54 PM) BatSteve: ahhh
(10:54:05 PM) BatSteve: okay, that's even less complicated than I thought
(10:54:19 PM) Sgt_Lemming: you need a trigger phrase though
(10:54:39 PM) Sgt_Lemming: i.e. "a point to the first person"
(10:55:00 PM) Sgt_Lemming: even "a point to" would work
(10:55:08 PM) BatSteve: Why do you say that?
(10:55:25 PM) Sgt_Lemming: so long as it's the start of the line, it shouldn't false trigger all that often
(10:55:40 PM) Sgt_Lemming: otherwise the bot will be scanning the channel all the time
(10:56:17 PM) Sgt_Lemming: and will give points whenver someone says ": correct" which makes it too easy to game