That's cool, I did the same a few years ago and got an email from Slack asking to put this green banner at the bottom saying it's not affiliated with Slack.
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Re: We built a Slack emulator to demo our chatbot
#12The interactive tour on our website at https://karmabot.chat/#demo (desktop only) is pretty cool. It looks good and can do a lot: - It executes bot's commands - Emulates Slack interface with channels, conversations and all - Generates dummy data on the spot - Supports multiple languages Sharing a semi-long read with some code bits. Please feel free to ask any questions. Thanks! P.S.: Got Mictrosoft Teams demo too: ht…
It doesn't escape input from the user.
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#13Not sure how I feel about the product itself. Giving "karma" to your coworkers and having a leaderboard feels a bit Black Mirror Nosedive-esque https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror)
Are these kinds of things actually good for corporate culture?
Re: We built a Slack emulator to demo our chatbot
#14Whoa, always very cool to see a fellow Aucklander here on HN :)
Hmm, I'm curious to know if you would consider something like Officevibe to be a competitor for example?
From what I understand, their Slack integration can't be configured on a team by team level for example so it's mostly used via email where I work. As a result, it's really easy to just overlook all of those requests for feedback and so on as they blend in with the rest of my inbox
I presume it wouldn't quite be as Officevibe is more for anonymous (opt out) feedback while Karmabot is focused on visible feedback it seems.
Re: We built a Slack emulator to demo our chatbot
#15Not sure how I feel about the product itself. Giving "karma" to your coworkers and having a leaderboard feels a bit Black Mirror Nosedive-esque https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror) Are these kinds of things actually good for corporate culture?
I think this is really risky. Some companies have the concept of peer-awarded bonuses, and these can work sometimes, but they often just create a "game" and a whole load of hidden politics.
I would suggest that most companies should be very careful about introducing peer bonuses, let alone something like this.
I would also suggest that much of the benefits of this product (increased recognition) could come from a combination of: thumbs-up or similar reactions to Slack messages, a channel to call out nice things people did (we have #values where we call out people living our company values), and a space for these deeds to be recognised such as at company all-hands meetings (we have a "thank yous and well dones" section in ours each week).
Re: We built a Slack emulator to demo our chatbot
#16Not sure how I feel about the product itself. Giving "karma" to your coworkers and having a leaderboard feels a bit Black Mirror Nosedive-esque https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror) Are these kinds of things actually good for corporate culture?
As a manager I find it horrifying. At its core it is the gamification of office politics.
And must surely lead to groupthink and conformity. The consequences of disagreeing might be at the end of the quarter a manager is looking at your low score and wondering if you should be cut.
Any company looking to adopt this should only do so after carefully looking at high quality peer reviewed studies on the outcomes of this kind of social credit system.
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#17"Thousands of business teams have ditched emails for Slack".
Really, they did? Not us, we send emails for reference stuff all the time...
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#18Slack is distracting enough as it is without having to send and reply to karma requests like this. Would negatively effect my view of a workplace employing a bot like this
Re: We built a Slack emulator to demo our chatbot
#19Not sure how I feel about the product itself. Giving "karma" to your coworkers and having a leaderboard feels a bit Black Mirror Nosedive-esque https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror) Are these kinds of things actually good for corporate culture?
They introduced truqu at work. Don't know what to think about that either. We need to give 12 likes over 3 months.
Re: We built a Slack emulator to demo our chatbot
#20Not sure how I feel about the product itself. Giving "karma" to your coworkers and having a leaderboard feels a bit Black Mirror Nosedive-esque https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror) Are these kinds of things actually good for corporate culture?
As a manager I find it horrifying. At its core it is the gamification of office politics. And must surely lead to groupthink and conformity. The consequences of disagreeing might be at the end of the quarter a manager is looking at your low score and wondering if you should be cut. Any company looking to adopt this should only do so after carefully looking at high quality peer reviewed studies on the outcomes of this…
Exactly. I bet there will be ‘upvote cartels’ where people agree to upvote each other and downvote everyone else to get ahead. A game theoretic analysis of this would be interesting.