Discord Discord SIGs

[Luna]

So, I've been on other discord servers that obviously have role pings for certain games when people want to get a group together. However, I recently came across a discord that has a bot (unfortunately a private custom bot) that allows people to create SIGs (special interest groups) for pings. The groups do not require creating additional roles within the discord.

It reminded me of when I used to play EVE Online and we would use a Jabber bot to broadcast pings for SIGs whenever people wanted to play various social games. ....or when some really dumb supercap pilot got caught moving his Nyx a week after the move op was over.

Basically the idea is that any player can subscribe to a SIG and then !ping SIG name and the bot will @mention each individual user that is also subscribed to the SIG in a single message.

Example: Star, Adam, Buster, whnheaven, and myself subscribe to the League of Legends SIG so we can all play together. Then I hop on and use "sig! ping League of Legends" and the bot would then post a message such as:

Pinging 5 League-of-Legends SIG subscribers for ComradeLuna#0001
@Luna @Star @Adam @Buster @whnheaven

We could limit the creation of SIGs to Dedicated Supports to prevent abuse. SIGs have an owner based on who created it and other "moderators" that can remove members that decide to abuse the ping system. Leadership and MS would have the ability to handle issues related to SIGs by being granted the appropriate perms. The ping system would ideally have a timer as well.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a public bot that has the same functionality. I'm hoping that someone reading this suggestion knows of a bot that has this or a similar functionality. If I had any confidence in my ability to write code that wasn't complete garbage, I'd make the bot myself.

If we really can't find a bot with this functionality but want to have something like this implemented, maybe I'll give myself a summer project and make a rough version of it. I'd turn over the source to Tech for them to manage since we'd want to self-host it. This is kinda a last ditch effort though because I truly have 0 experience doing something of this nature. My only skill related to coding is being able to RTFM.

I'm open to any ideas that accomplish the same thing without the use of a bot as well.

 

[Scarox93]

+1 I’m also seeing a practical application here for admin calls where MS support can ping the “SIG group” of game admins who have opted into this if there is an urgent need for help presented in a help desk ticket.
It would be even more amazing if the bot could have an extra argument where when opting in, you’d type “true” or “false” where true allows the bot to ping you any time and false has the bot check to see if you’re marked as online before pinging? So people wouldn’t get pings that they couldn’t get involved in if they don’t want to.
Fantastic idea, Luna

 

[Luna]

I’m also seeing a practical application here for admin calls where MS support can ping the “SIG group” of game admins who have opted into this

I didn't even think of this when I made the suggestion but I really like that idea.

The ability to create pingable ad hoc groups is honestly something I think we can really benefit from.

 

[Scarox93]

I didn't even think of this when I made the suggestion but I really like that idea.

The ability to create pingable ad hoc groups is honestly something I think we can really benefit from.

Thanks! I've had my mind on the idea since this thread was created and since a solution seemed either difficult or far-off, I've been thinking about other ways to get a similar result.

 

[Luna]

I want to ask a simple question

How many of you would use this main eGO discord more if we had a feature like this or something similar that made it easy to pickup and play games with members of the community.

 

[BeastTheNinja]

I want to ask a simple question

How many of you would use this main eGO discord more if we had a feature like this or something similar that made it easy to pickup and play games with members of the community.

well i do already use the main discord alot, but to play games and just have fun and hang out i think there may be more that will use it until it dies down again since its a new thing that can happen

 

[Garrett]

I like this a lot, and from a tech standpoint it is definitely something feasible to do.

+1 from me.

 

[TehRaddish]

I'd love to see this. Its LFGs without the fluff, more tailorable for the community member, and with the added benefit of calling an admin for those who opt into the role.

++1 for me

 

[Buster]

I like this idea, except we may have to think more about who actually has perms to create them

 

[Scarox93]

I like this idea, except we may have to think more about who actually has perms to create them

I’m with Buster on this, I think DS is a bit open but feasible, eG shouldn’t have the perm imo but maybe Os?

 

[Moto Moto]

To really understand it I'd need to see it on the discord and use it myself. But from what I understand from your post I think it would be a great addition. I would love to find people to play aram with at night

 

[jcole]

I like this and support it.

 

[MS]

This sounds a bit like LFG channels.

I don't think this would be used a lot.

 

[Luna]

This sounds a bit like LFG channels.

I don't think this would be used a lot.

The reason I feel like this has a better chance at success compared to the LFG channels comes down to the flexibility it provides.

The LFG channels had 1 major problem in my opinion. They required people to be actively looking to group up and play a game and you were never sure how many people even card to play the game you were looking for.

With SIGs the idea is that since it is a pingable group that anyone can subscribe to be pinged for (but not using the discord roles feature), it makes it far easier to actually get a group together.

With the LFG rooms you had to actually be actively looking to play, at that moment.

With SIGs you could do something like

sig! ping league-of-legends
(Bot pings)
Hey who's down for some custom games tonight, probably around 7 or 8?

Everyone in the SIG gets the ping and can respond.

SIGs wouldn't only be used for LFG purposes either

We could use them for server filling, for specific types of events, calling admins

The SIGs are all opt-in and again ideally would be a DS perk (maybe limit to a specific tier) as well as leadership

We could use them when we want to gauge actual interest in potential new games or projects before they are officially supported.

Makes it way easier to make a case for a game if you already have a moderately sized group of people playing in the main discord every time the group is pinged.

EDIT: I typed this on mobile so don't blame me if the formatting is super bad

 

[Luna]

Found an open source bot that kinda does this. The only difference is that the SIGs are tied to individual channels and it could result in channel clutter.