Ori Livneh wrote: >Can we deprecate usage of '!ask' on IRC? > >> ori-l: !ask >> wm-bot: Hi, how can we help you? Just ask your question. > >It's annoying when people ask to ask, but the people who do so do it out >of insecurity or lack of experience, and so they're the last people we >should be siccing our bots on. > >I've used '!ask' a lot before but I'm going to stop. I hope others do the >same.
So really you're going for !!ask. "!ask" used to be more direct (some would say meaner) and I'm a little sad to see it go away, but I suppose snotty replies can always be made manually. ;-) MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
