Increased Bot IA Functionality

[InAPandaSuit]

Hello!

TC was talking about like dream IA bot functionality and I realized we could literally just ask you if it's possible. Currently, the IA command is bulky and not easy to use. It also doesn't look at irl day vote counts. So we were wondering a couple things.

1. Would we be able to have the bot not allow people with the IA Penalty role sign-up for a game? We'd basically want that command blocked for that specific role.
2. Would we be able to create a command that looks specifically at the number of times a person shows up on the like voting booth results that pop up in mod chat when you run wolf.night? Essentially we want to see if there is a way to create a command to assess the number of times a person has voted in an irl day. While it's not a simple task, possibly the easiest way to do it would be to pull from embeds I think? I don't know if that's possible though.
3. Would it be possible to find a way to hard wire the bot to autorun the IA command (and the vote count command) for that current day? So like, when a mod runs the wolf.night command, the bot will automatically run an IA command for the irl day from like 12:01am to 11:59pm or something?

We essentially would like to take IA and make it something a mod doesn't need to run new or additional commands for. If that's not possible, we'd like to make it that mods have a single, easy command to run that can assess each aspect (message count and irl day vote count) of the IA standard as it currently stands.

Thank you I appreciate you for this ^_^ - Panda

[CybeastID]

I proposed a solution elsewhere which I'm copying to here. This is conceptual, not code right now.

You flag one day as the "start" of an IA period by passing an argument to wolf.day. Then you flag the "end" of the period by passing an argument to wolf.night, which also clears the flag on the start after doing IA processing.

As an example:
First day of the day, mod runs, say, "wolf.day start" or something, which tells the bot "this is where IA checking begins", and it internally sets a timestamp to use for the IA check later. It could even be possible to use a "if not set" check to set this value as well, meaning mods would only need to use the "start" argument to reset it.

At the end of the last day of the day, they run, say, "wolf.night end" or something, which tells the bot: "Okay this is the end of the IA check period. Run the IA check from the Start timestamp to now, then clear the start timestamp."

My method would define the start of day, potentially even automatically, and would just require the moderator to remember to use the special argument to denote checking IA when ending day. And if they don't they really can just run wolf.night again with it.

For counting voting booth messages (we've gone to a rule of 70 messages, 35 and a vote, or 2 votes), I proposed a potential system:

You could parse every "voting booth" message from the bot into tokens (hell it's already split by newlines so you could use that as delimiters), and then count up the number of tokens that are exact matches for players in game (which avoids mistakenly counting "votes for X" lines).