Re:The Future of discord.py
by Lt_Riza_Hawkeye on Friday August 27, 2021 @11:05PM
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I've seen a few markov chain bots which were hilarious. As another comment mentioned, they can also be used for automated moderation. I've also seen a few servers with a bot that lets you "level up" depending on how active you are
The level up bots should be unaffected by this, as they don’t need to read message contents—they just need to count messages.
Re:The Future of discord.py
by xboxnolifes on Friday August 27, 2021 @11:07PM
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Nadeko bot is a fairly big bot that has the ability to configure custom responses that the bot will reply with if a user types a certain message (any string of text, no prefix).
Core functionality is of course behind a prefix, but that's just convenient.
Another popular bot, Mudae, allows the user to use both prefixed commands and slash commands, and the latter can take a few seconds to go through. Not acceptable when you have to fire ten or more commands at once in under half a minute.
Are there large bots that are particularly dynamic? Every bot i've seen with any real usage across servers has a !help command with a static set of commands. Plus, on almost all of them you can change the command prefix to a special character like `~`, which was very needed with multiple bots defaulting to the `!` character, thus causing multiple bots to respond at once to commands where the user only intended one bot to respond.