[ blootbot-Feature Requests-1226031 ] Clarify ibot's "addressCharacter in /msg" complaint.
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Feature Requests item #1226031, was opened at 2005-06-23 00:39 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by rkrolib You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=358794&aid=1226031&group_id=8794 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Status: Closed Priority: 5 Submitted By: Richard Rauch (rkrolib) Assigned to: Tim Riker (timriker) Summary: Clarify ibot's "addressCharacter in /msg" complaint. Initial Comment: I'm a newbie to blootbot. I wanted to send some commands to it, and people object of course if I spam a public channel. So I use /msg. I had no idea that the ~ was not a part of the command. So I would say something like: /msg ibot ~ibot ...and would get this as the first part of the response: *ibot* please don't use the the addressCharacter when private messaging Now, recall that I don't know much of anything about blootbot/ibot. While it's not hard to figure out what "the addressCharacter" is, it is less than clear how to send the "~ibot" command to ibot in a /msg without using the ~. I.e., to me as a newbie, it seemed that ~ was part of the command, so ibot was whining about something that seemed inherently required in what I was trying to do. Probably anyone sending the ~ in a /msg to ibot does not know, any more than I did, what ibot really wants. I would suggest clarifying the ibot response in some way. Perhaps: *ibot* The addressCharacter is used in public channel messages to get ibot's attention. Please do not use it in in sending a private message to ibot. It is not strictly a part of the command you are trying to use. (Yeah, that's a little verbose, but most users would only need to see it once to figure out what ibot was complaiing about. Myself, I mostly ignored the current complaint from ibot because it wasn't clear what to do about it and ibot seemed to work well enough if the ~ was included anyway.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Richard Rauch (rkrolib) Date: 2005-06-23 14:48 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=854844 Hm. I wonder why it is that both you here, and the people on #bzflag focused on what the character is (~). That was not what this is about. It is pretty clear that it is complaining about the ~. The problem is that the message doesn't explain that the ~ is "optional". It just complains about it. To a person like me (unfamiliar with the bot), I thought that the ~ was part of the command, hence if I dropped it, it would be like dropping the \ from a TeX command or the $ from a Bourne shell variable. Do that, and it just doesn't work. So I was ignoring the "don't use the ~ in private messages" response for quite some time. That is what this is about. It was completley clear that the addressCharacter was ~; the change that you've done would not have helped me understand this in the slightest. Thanks for the prompt response, though! I hope that the above clarifies what this RFE is about. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Tim Riker (timriker) Date: 2005-06-23 14:05 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=8134 I added the addressCharacter to the message: <purl> please don't use the the addressCharacter "~" when private messaging thanx! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=358794&aid=1226031&group_id=8794 |