Tracking nominations quickly gets out of hand when eNgInEeRs get to do what they do best: "Swince like there is no tomorrow".
A bot would let eNgInEeRs track who they nominate, who nominated them, their current score, and an always up-to-date leaderboard.
To keep shit simple, the stack is as follows:
- Go: Easy to code, lot's of library support when it comes to cloud infra
bwmarrin/discordgo: A discord API wrapper I already used for songlinkr- SQlite: No need for an always-on server for such a small project
- 1 point per hour remaining before the 24h deadline after a nomination
- Missing the 24h deadline imposes The Late Swince Tariff (+1 Swince) but will grant +12 points if both swinces are done
- Creating a new swince chain (swince without being nominated) grants a +12 points bonus
- Ending a swince chain (Nominating nobody while doing a swince) will result in a -4 points penalty. Therefore, a solo swince (not nominated AND not nominating) grants a fixed 8 points (12-4)
- Strength in numbers: +4 points bonus for every accompanying eNgInEeR (ex: a triple swince gives everyone +8 because each eNgInEeR has two buddies)
- Ask the eNgInEeR for the list of people swincing in the video
- For each user selected, ask who that user wishes to nominate (with the added option of "I swince for No-One")
- For each eNgInEeR with unfulfilled duties, ask which nomination he wants to fulfill (including Late Swince Tarriffs)
- Asks to upload the video as proof
- Posts the video and tags the nominees
With no arguments, stats are for @me
Posts the following statistics about a chosen eNgInEeR:
- Swince accomplished
- How many people that he nominated
- How many nominations he got
- How many Swince chains he started
- How many late swinces he got (ex: "3/4 Late Swince Tarriffs paid")
- Average reaction time, would Buffalo Bill be proud? (ex: "Usually takes 6 hours to respond to his duties")
- Total points accumulated
Self explanatory, user/points markdown table in decreasing order