Ask HN: Can we set up a strictly-monitored chatbox?

1 points by SherlockeHolmes 8 years ago | 7 comments

Dear HN,

Is it possible for us to have a live chat-box that users can use to give answers to each other in real-time?

I believe this can be functional without being burdensome and intrusive. Hopefully one of us can write an intelligent bot that will filter useless spam and only allow valid stack-exchange like questions. The bot - as far as I know - won't be able to do a perfect job, but we can also have volunteer moderators to take care of spams that filter through.

The purpose of this chat-box would be to allow for the answering of a quick question that can be answered within 2-3 sentences.

brudgers 8 years ago |

In the spirit of Stack Exchange like questions:

  What code have you tried?

Good luck.

SherlockeHolmes 8 years ago | |

I did a bunch of stuff with pandas, 2 or three functions from numpy, and used a virtualbox to get an .exe out of my python file - using, I think it was pyinstaller.

outside of that I wrote 5-10 commands of DOS as a kid, then a bunch of years later wrote 50-100 lines of BASIC over two years to program this robot that won second place when we added a fire detecting capability to its sonar ears. the robot could follow you around, stop and turn at walls, detect fire using a heat sensor I think, and put water on it.

SherlockeHolmes 8 years ago | |

hah ok. i’m not a coder nor a hacker, so i can’t say i’ve tried much. some of us really never grow out of our smart-mouthed phase. i especially find a lot of babies in places like reddit, stack exchange, and a few more.

brudgers 8 years ago | | |

The spirit of StackExchange is that problems be concrete and the question shows a level of research/effort consistent with the problem domain. That context was created by your question.

nodeflixnchill 8 years ago |

Have you tried Dev focused slack channels for that stuff?

SherlockeHolmes 8 years ago | |

No, but that would be a promising solution when I have a team. I was hoping for a cheat-code into the HN collective knowledge.

SherlockeHolmes 8 years ago | |

i don’t need as many dev related answers as just lots of varied queries that will take 10-30 minutes if i find the answer myself.