Crobot is a Slack bot user. It is designed to maintain a list of users that have to bring breakfast to the office.
In France 🇫🇷, the breakfast is composed of croissant, hence the Crobot name.
Every people working in an open space knows one thing: DO NOT LEAVE YOUR COMPUTER UNLOCKED. If someone leaves its computer unlocked, one of his coworker will most likely go to his computer and do stupid things assuming his identity.
One of these stupid things is to tell other people that he will bring the breakfast for everybody in the near future.
We can say that...
He just got croissanted 😎
The croissanted person will most likely deny the fact that he was croissanted for several reasons:
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I was just looking for a document in the next office, I didn't need to lock my computer
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I was speaking to John and didn't pay attention to my computer, but it's not valid because I was really close to my computer
Enough with these bad excuses. If you've been croissanted, it's your fault, you have to be more careful. Just remember that it could have been worse.
Crobot is there to make sure that there is no possible denial of croissantage. Once you're in the Crobot's list, the only way to be removed is to bring croissants to everyone.
To get on the Crobot's list, the only thing to do is to ping it with the keyword croissant.
@crobot I will bring croissants next time
Simple as that. So if you want someone to bring the croissants, just type in this command on one of your coworker's Slack.
This command will output how many times the croissanted user have to bring breakfast.
Looks like
<user>needs to bring breakfast<count>times!
To get off the Crobot's list, 2 people have to ping crobot with the keyword paid and tell he/she has paid his/her debt.
@crobot @Jean has paid his debt
Don't try to cheat, it will be sanctionned ! ;)
You can ask Crobot the list of users' breakfast debts by pinging it with the keyword list
@crobot list
This will output something like:
<user1>:<count>times<user2>:<count>times<user3>:<count>times
You can ask Crobot to blacklist you. When you are blacklisted, you can't be croissanted anymore, but you still have to pay your debt.
To blacklist you:
@crobot blacklist me
To get a list of blacklisted users:
@crobot blacklist list
<user1><user2><user3>
To get off the blacklist:
@crobot unblacklist me
- Add an help command to explain how Crobot works
- Switch from RTM API to Web API
- Find a way to store your data so they are not lost when you restart crobot