Before I halted my active participation in MetaGame, I pushed a bot I had made to the metafam repo with the sole functionality of creating a voting poll to timeout any user, without requiring moderation perms. I have now added a new feature but first:
The timeout command works as follows:
- any specified role(in MG, that can be Player) can invoke a poll to timeout any member(except server owner) for up to 28 days
- the poll duration is dictated by the timeout specified. (currently it’s either timeout/5 or timeout/10)-configurable
- the amount of emoji required is also dictated by the timeout duration (currently it’s 5, 8 or 13)-configurable
It’s a slash command, therefore better ux:
Example of a vote failing(the bot determined that a timeout of 10 minutes would require 2 minutes of voting and 5 thumbs up):
Example of a vote passing(i changed the emoji req. for the example because i didn’t have 5 other peeps to test):
The member is indeed timed out:
Simple, community owned moderation tool. Can be used to gauge if the community agrees with the penalty or to have means to ‘moderate with the community’ as opposed to ‘moderating the community’ because doing it this way, one cannot blame a salty moderator for their ban/timeout reason.
In any case, this would probably be used once a year considering the transgression frequency in MetaGame (extremely rare considering everything).
This is also the first iteration, I’m working on adding a feature where if a mod takes action, an automatic poll is launched whether or not the rest of the community agrees with the mods decision and reverts it if not. That however, is out of scope for this thread.
NEW FEATURE
I’ve added a new feature to the bot, a report menu.
It’s made with sourcecred’s props mechanic in mind where the XP in majority flows to the person tagged, not to the person posting.
The report menu is an interactive selector where users can pick items from a dropdown, add a description and artefact from their contribution. The report can then be submitted to a specified channel(in MG that should be give-props).
Visual examples:
Once the options are picked, you would add a description and an artefact by clicking the blue:
Clicking it pops out a modal:
The bot hits you back with an ephemeral preview of your report card generated. If you wish to make any changes, now’s the time! Otherwise, click submit.
If you clicked submit, the bot informs you and shares a link:
Finally, the report is sent to the designated channel and the player composing the report is tagged:
By tagging the player and sending it to ‘#give-props’, the player will be collecting the xp, not the bot.
Recap
I made a bot that I think could be useful in MetaGame. I will be maintaining it and adding features as time passes regardless.
Current features:
-Invocation of a timeout without a moderator dictated by the results
-A report menu
Semantics could be changed of course but what I would like to know is your opinion on whether or not this could be something useful in mg and should there be any mechanical changes. There are certain limits imposed by discord with these but any suggestion is welcomed. For now, I’m willing to have the bot running from my machine until’ a more viable solution is found
Also, those technically inclined are ofc more than welcomed to look into this mess of a repo(the one in metafam was forked from this one so a simple merge should suffice i believe, when reviewed):
Github repo
I still need to push one more commit after which it should be ready. I never really dealt with these platforms, let alone coded so bare with me pls 
Peace
I also like it has right there a escale for impact and effort, so hopefully everyone is kinda of in the same page as to what each level means.
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