[help] Suggestion: auto change status emoji in channel names

[Soheab]

Auto change status emoji

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Suggestion

Currently when a new thread is created helpers set the topic to "✋ " to denote that the thread is open for anyone to pick up and when that happens it gets changed to "⏳ " but I think that this could be automated by setting it to the "✋" status upon the creation of the thread, the topic can be parsed from the initial message with ~~magic~~ regex.

On to the "⏳" status, that one can be set when a helper (not only mods) sends a message in the thread.

[ooliver1]

Issue with parsing: initial messages 75% of the time are just "hi"

[DenverCoder1]

Good idea. Note that the bot can only change the name of the channel 2 times per 10 minutes, so it could run into issues like that

[ThePrivatePanda]

The only useful/probable addition would be to automatically put it to "⏳" after a set duration of no response from the author of the thread. And if there has been no message "lately", by anyone other than the thread author, it's safe to assume that help is needed and can be changed to "✋"

Making it "✋" automatically on creation is a waste of the ratelimit imo, since a helper will anyways need to run =topic ✋ <topic> - the topic is important yes

[DenverCoder1]

If the ":hand:" is added in the original thread title, it won't use up the ratelimit any more than it already does

[ThePrivatePanda]

Ah alright, but it still doesn't help since your anyways mentioned in new threads, It's rather intuitive that a new thread is indeed ✋- I still think that helpers putting the actual topic in the thread is helpful

Also, often, helpers do not change the thread status, it's usually done for multiple threads at once. So this would end up with the thread having "✋" while it may be "⏳"