geekchick77

"bot quoting a notable woman" == "the room equivalent of a screaming maniac yell at you (politely)"

That's quite the assertion you are making.

Given that you've said you would try to force someone who didn't agree with you out of the company, I'm sure all your current coworkers are completely honest with you about what they enjoy.

Every time a TWSS joke went by, I noticed, and it bothered me a little. It seemed to me that it was easier for at least some of the guys to ignore it as background noise. What I was hoping for was to make the joke visible, something people noticed and thought about. - Jessamyn

P.S. And it worked really well, in the sense that we were able to have the conversation I tried to have in the first place but nobody was interested at the time.

I'm not hard to find, if you are interested: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jessamynsmith

I didn't know there was a more elegant way to do the shebang. I've fixed that now. It hadn't occurred to me that there was a particular advantage to being able to reload without restarting, but I am considering that now.

Personally, I prefer using libraries to reinventing the wheel. YMMV.

Update: The creators of the TWSS bot at work volunteered to take it down a few days after my original blog post went up. It is no longer in the channel. Many people seem to have missed that some of my coworkers didn't like TWSS, either, and many of them thought the TWSRS bot was great.