#indiehelp to the rescue
by Warpy · in General Discussion · 12/17/2004 (5:46 am) · 9 replies
Indies,
A few weeks ago i came up with the idea to have another helping channel on irc, one that specializes in helping newbie programmers, artists, mappers and everyone that needs help.
The channel is at irc.maxgaming.net or irc.fmdev.net #indiehelp.
I know a lot of you are wondering why do we realy need another helping channel, so i am going to answer that. i have put a bot in the channel named mr-right, mr-right is an information bot
and we feed him regulary with help snippets, so when a newbie comes and asks for example "what is quark" an Operator of the channel will tell the bot "mr-right tell NewNewbie about quark" and that person will get msged the answer in a private message dialogue.
As i said we feed the bot daily, but the bot doesnt have all the answers yet and the way to teach it everything is best accomplished when a newbie joins the channel and when he asks a question the ChannelOp will answer the newb and teach the bot on the spot the answer to that question.
The channel might seem a little empty at times, but if people will idle in the channel and put it on their autojoin, the channel will grow and the community will help itself give better answers and support for torque and many other subjects. so i encourage you to stay in the channel.
The Future plan is to host a file server with tutorials and help documents, but we need a steady shell to do that, so if anyone has a shell he can provide it would be appreciated.
Current Channel Operators are :
Devon, Chemeleon, Omroth (mode7 games), Djagg, Man_of_Ice, The_Force, Warpy.
Current Bots : Mr-right.
- Warpy
A few weeks ago i came up with the idea to have another helping channel on irc, one that specializes in helping newbie programmers, artists, mappers and everyone that needs help.
The channel is at irc.maxgaming.net or irc.fmdev.net #indiehelp.
I know a lot of you are wondering why do we realy need another helping channel, so i am going to answer that. i have put a bot in the channel named mr-right, mr-right is an information bot
and we feed him regulary with help snippets, so when a newbie comes and asks for example "what is quark" an Operator of the channel will tell the bot "mr-right tell NewNewbie about quark" and that person will get msged the answer in a private message dialogue.
As i said we feed the bot daily, but the bot doesnt have all the answers yet and the way to teach it everything is best accomplished when a newbie joins the channel and when he asks a question the ChannelOp will answer the newb and teach the bot on the spot the answer to that question.
The channel might seem a little empty at times, but if people will idle in the channel and put it on their autojoin, the channel will grow and the community will help itself give better answers and support for torque and many other subjects. so i encourage you to stay in the channel.
The Future plan is to host a file server with tutorials and help documents, but we need a steady shell to do that, so if anyone has a shell he can provide it would be appreciated.
Current Channel Operators are :
Devon, Chemeleon, Omroth (mode7 games), Djagg, Man_of_Ice, The_Force, Warpy.
Current Bots : Mr-right.
- Warpy
About the author
#2
12/17/2004 (3:09 pm)
Looks like it
#3
12/17/2004 (4:46 pm)
And there is no evil sado to block you because of where you come from
#4
we want to make the channel userfriendly to newbies all around.
12/17/2004 (9:44 pm)
There will be no evilism in the channel, we want to make the channel userfriendly to newbies all around.
#5
12/17/2004 (10:31 pm)
This sounds like it could be a really great thing, lets hope that everything goes as planned.
#6
how about joining the fun at #indiehelp idling and helping newbies ? :P
12/18/2004 (3:46 am)
Alexander, how about joining the fun at #indiehelp idling and helping newbies ? :P
#8
12/18/2004 (4:43 am)
Its not just or only about being better, its about having more help options.
#9
12/18/2004 (8:31 pm)
#indiehelp has helper bots, too! 
Torque Owner Edward Gardner