I would favor having the bots on a separate channel as well.

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Brian Gerstle <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I think the point is that it's unrealistic to expect people to handle this
> on the "client side" and they should "opt in" for those
> notifications/messages by joining that channel (i.e. separating events on
> the server side, so it applies to all clients).
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Bahodir Mansurov <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> I use LimeChat, but haven’t tried hard enough to filter out bots. I don’t
>> mind creating a new channel and directing bots there. XChat advanced
>> settings related to “Text Events”, which maybe what you want. Not sure
>> about the backlog support though.
>>
>> On Apr 30, 2015, at 3:36 PM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Bryan that's exactly what I'd like. Direct the bots to other channels and
>> join those if you want the notifications. I personally will because I find
>> them very useful.
>>
>> Baha the reality is not that easy. I want backlog so I've moved to the
>> irccloud chat, and there I can only ignore users. The problem is that I
>> find wikibugs and grrrit-wm very useful and I don't want to hide them, I
>> want to separate them to another channel. This way for activity and
>> notifications I'll join the notifications channel, and in the main channel
>> I'll be able to read and have conversations with people without tons of
>> noise.
>> Would you mind having another channel open with the notifications? We
>> should expect all team members to autojoin that channel when working too.
>>
>> Jon, Ori told me that limechat can hide messages based on regexes. I
>> poked around it and searched google but found nothing useful and he didn't
>> reply on irc so I'm not sure which dark secrets he holds :P
>>
>> What client are you using baha?
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I personally detest them now I am working with mostly a remote team.
>>> They are useful occasionally but not missing messages from team
>>> members is far too important for me.
>>>
>>> I've not found a good way to filter these out (look at the pink lines
>>> that mean pings in my irc client - http://imgur.com/MsYk9OO)
>>>
>>> I've also noticed an increase in private conversations recently to
>>> compensate for this which sucks for openness.
>>>
>>> A compromise to reduce noise might be:
>>> * don't include name of author in patch submits/phabricator tasks
>>> reported by the bot (so that author doesn't get pings that mask other
>>> pings from other users) - but someone would have to implement this.
>>>
>>> I think moving to a new channel seems like an easy solution. Nothing
>>> gets missed provided people know to join it and nothing needs to be
>>> implemented.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Bahodir Mansurov
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > I think they should stay and everyone should be able to configure their
>>> > client to hide specific message from showing.
>>> >
>>> > On Apr 30, 2015, at 1:50 PM, Brian Gerstle <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Totally agree, having *important messages only* in IRC would be nice.
>>> > Another idea would be to have notifs go to more specific chat rooms
>>> based on
>>> > the project.
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Corey Floyd <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> I think this is a good idea… the only thing I think should be in the
>>> main
>>> >> channel is something like breaking the build (at least for the apps
>>> guys)
>>> >>
>>> >> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez
>>> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Hi!
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I've been feeling that the signal to noise ratio on #wikimedia-mobile
>>> >>> since the addition of wikibugs and our new apps engineers (more
>>> grrrit-wm
>>> >>> spam) is turning to be 0 (that is, no signal because of too much
>>> noise).
>>> >>>
>>> >>> It is really difficult to talk about anything when somebody else is
>>> >>> working (and that is what we do, so...).
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I would like to propose moving the machines to a different channel,
>>> maybe
>>> >>> a couple of them ( #wikimedia-mobile-web-bots &
>>> #wikimedia-mobile-apps-bots
>>> >>> for example ) so that they continue to be useful but in a different
>>> channel,
>>> >>> and so that we can read again the chats with just the conversations.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> What do you think?
>>> >>>
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