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