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Posted: May 3, 2008 10:47 pm  | |||
      IRC Nickname: Gorgemaster Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 9840 Member No.: 3 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 540    | Today Glenn brought something to my attention that I thought was actually a very good idea. Currently I am often asked by members in the IRC when the next events are. Yes we have a clan events forum, however when a member is quickly asking this, it is so irritiating when they get a response of "look in the clan events forum". We used to have a calendar on the z6 forums, however due to our new technology, server and forums this can no longer be used in the same way, since it does not show up at the bottom anymore. Wouldn't it be so much easier to know which events are coming up soon at one quick glance? Well Arsenalfan32 (Glenn) has found a way, which I fully support. Allow me to explain. When entering the IRC, a bot appears giving you the name of upcomming events as well as a link to the relevant topics. The message given by the bot can say anything and can be set by channel ops and half-ops (I believe, definately by ops) and is sent to everyone as they enter the IRC. The Bot that does it: There is a bot that does it for us, unless Robbie, Buzz, someone else would like to create a script for it. The bot is called "Funaust" and for this to work, has to be present in the channel you want the message to apply to. Here is a conversation I had with him earlier about it and some more details:
Won't it get damn annoying?? The bot can be turned off using a simple command that is given to you in the message that you are pm'ed with on entering the IRC channel It's a simple command and will stop you being messaged with it Why use it? It will help massively with sign-ups including War sign-ups and Skill of the Week sign-ups and with event recognition and reminders in general. This will altogether tackle inactivity issues in some members and increase attendance at wars/events. As I said this is early days. I need the input of Robbie to see if this is possible and the council to see if it is actually wanted. I think it would be very helpful and useful. ~George  --------------------    | ||
Posted: May 3, 2008 10:50 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: Mr Glennfase Group: Emeritus Posts: 3064 Member No.: 39 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 220 | I support this. It sounds like a good idea. We've been ranting about war sign-ups. Now upon joining, by simply copying and pasting a URL you can get to the page. Very easy. EDIT: I have found out we do not need to employ this specific bot. I have heard from Dale that is a very easy task to make a script for this. We could use RobbieBot to do it possibly? I do hate to push more work on Robbie though. -------------------- That's Mr. Glennfase to you. Ex-Warlord/Council  | ||
Posted: May 3, 2008 11:43 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Group: Guests Posts: Member No.: 0 Joined: January 1, 1970 Total Events Attended: 1 | Runescript has it aswell, not on join but you type !event I think. -------------------- | ||
Posted: May 4, 2008 12:31 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: Ty Group: Ex-Member Posts: 369 Member No.: 93 Joined: January 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 34 | I'd prefer !event because it would make it less spammy. Yes it's very easy to do and its a good idea. --------------------    | ||
Posted: May 4, 2008 12:59 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: Yingy Group: Clan Friend Posts: 2205 Member No.: 27 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 21 |
It is sent through PM to you i think, Either way.. i support this. -------------------- Friend's Forver The Long Road Ahead - 91/99 Prayer   | ||
Posted: May 4, 2008 01:11 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: General199 Group: Ex-Member Posts: 1073 Member No.: 318 Joined: March 11, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 | I have good friends in KOD and seen them using it. I thought it was a good idea but just brushed it off. I think it will help us! --------------------  | ||
Posted: May 4, 2008 01:39 am | |||
| IRC Nickname: Group: Guests Posts: Member No.: 0 Joined: January 1, 1970 Total Events Attended: 1 | I support it also. and it seems alot easier.  -------------------- | ||
Posted: May 4, 2008 03:15 am | |||
| IRC Nickname: Group: Guests Posts: Member No.: 0 Joined: January 1, 1970 Total Events Attended: 1 | Spamming it is better than hoping that people type !event. This makes sure that they see it. -------------------- | ||
Posted: May 4, 2008 05:37 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: RobbieThe1st Group: Founder Posts: 770 Member No.: 2 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 49 | Well, yes and no - It would be very simple to have it NOTICE anyone on joining #wg(or #wg_lobby). Having it check a "allowed to PM" list would be harder, but not that bad, but I think this would defeat the purpose - we want it to annoy people into joining. I don't think that one message on joining would be too bad. I could also attach it to a command( EVENT or NEWS). Changing it with a command would be fine, just so long as you do it from #wg. -RobbieThe1st -------------------- Old Avatar - Paypal donation link  I am left handed, and proud of it! Retired from RuneScape. Old forum posts: 2275(s4+s10+wg.com)+1759(z6 old account)+474(z6 new account) Total: 4508 Join date: 4/16/05 | Get Firefox 3.5 now: http://www.getfirefox.com | RobbieSwich for Firefox | ||
Posted: May 4, 2008 08:23 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: Gusmighster Group: Emeritus Posts: 1360 Member No.: 46 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 67 | Having !event would be pretty much pointless when you can have a command which will assure that everyone who enters IRC sees the upcoming events. --------------------  | ||
Posted: May 4, 2008 08:40 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: Zeth Group: Emeritus Posts: 1839 Member No.: 17 Joined: December 29, 2007 Total Events Attended: 63 | I support the idea of having the pm sent to you when you enter. --------------------  Joined WG - 24th of June 2007 - Never left. | ||
Posted: May 4, 2008 11:09 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: Trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls Group: Banned Posts: 2956 Member No.: 422 Joined: April 4, 2008 Total Events Attended: 130 | This seems like a good idea, i had something similar operating from my nick in my last clan, though it involved using !setevent and users typing !event having been told to do so in PM on join. Robbie, could you not have it as part of the same system? Currently, when they join, if trial guardian+ they get invited. Surely it wouldn't be hard to add in a section of the script to socket (or whatever you use for your script) to the events forum and PM the topic title and topic link to $nick (or whatever you use scriptwise  )~Mugger84 -------------------- Mugger84 Member Of WG Since 4th April 2008. WG Raid Leader Since 20th June 2008. WG Council Since 20th November 2008. Banned from WG Since 6th March 2009. DF IG Since 6th March 2009. DF FA Since 15th March 2009. Ex-Member Of WG Since 26th March 2009. Member of DF Since 6th April 2009. Clan Friend of WG Since 4th June 2009. --- ||Ex-WG Warlord || Current Member of DF || Ex-Rampage Leader ||  | ||
Promoting events in the IRC new system?, -Robbie's input needed