diff --git a/irc/limnoria/molly-guard-announce.md b/irc/limnoria/molly-guard-announce.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fc629b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/irc/limnoria/molly-guard-announce.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +# Preventing accidental owner announces + +By default `announce` command sends a message to every channel the bot is on +prefixed by `Announcement from my owner (username):` and this may be easy +to trigger by accident when not specifying the plugin such as `GitHub` or `RSS`. + +However this is easy to avoid with a couple of plugins + +1. `/query botname` +1. `load Aka` +1. `load ` meaning to load either Reply or Utilities +1. `aka add announce " You didn't mean for me to send that message everywhere, so I am hijacking it instead"` + * here again one is picked, "utilities echo" will just repeat the message + on channel while "reply reply" will ping you. The name of the plugin is + specified in case the command "echo" or "reply" was in multiple plugins. +1. `defaultplugin announce aka` so that when `announce` is called, it's + assumed that our new `aka` is meant instead of Owner which is an important + plugin and loaded by default.