teach bot about !m

[chadwhitacre]

Reticketed from gratipay/inside.gratipay.com#319.

"!m @mention" is a goofy way of saying "You're doing good work, @mention!" It comes from an IRC bot that @jamwt wrote at Polimetrix, which YouGov then acquired. I worked for YouGov for a while, and for me it was the weirdest part of onboarding, but it made for a great culture of appreciation. I brought !m over to Gittipay, but now that our center of gravity has moved from IRC to GitHub, we need to teach @gratipay-gremlin how to spring up and announce "You're doing good work, @mention!"

Since GitHub is less real-time than IRC, we should probably throttle every ... 30 minutes? I suppose that can be an envvar for wherever we deploy @gratipay-gremlin (currently all it does for us is kick off new team review tickets, which happens from within the main web app).

[jamwt]

I still love !m, it was such a positive thing at both Polimetrix and Bump.
I wish we had it at Dropbox. Gotta inject it into our Slack bot sometime...
On Feb 12, 2016 6:08 AM, "Chad Whitacre" [email protected] wrote:

Reticketed from gratipay/inside.gratipay.com#319
gratipay/inside.gratipay.com#319.

"!m @mention
https://help.github.com/articles/basic-writing-and-formatting-syntax/#mentioning-users-and-teams"
is a goofy way of saying "You're doing good work, @mention
https://help.github.com/articles/basic-writing-and-formatting-syntax/#mentioning-users-and-teams!"
It comes from an IRC bot that @jamwt https://github.com/jamwt wrote at
Polimetrix, which YouGov then acquired. I worked for YouGov for a while,
and for me it was the weirdest part of onboarding, but it made for a great
culture of appreciation. I brought !m over to Gittipay, but now that our
center of gravity has moved
gratipay/inside.gratipay.com#288 from IRC to
GitHub, we need to teach @gratipay-gremlin
https://github.com/gratipay-gremlin how to spring up and announce
"You're doing good work, @mention
https://help.github.com/articl%20es/basic%20-writing-and-formatting-syntax/#mentioning-users-and-teams
!"

Since GitHub is less real-time than IRC, we should probably throttle every
... 30 minutes? I suppose that can be an envvar for wherever we deploy
@gratipay-gremlin https://github.com/gratipay-gremlin (currently all it
does for us is kick off new team review tickets, which happens from within
the main web app).

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