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Not 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?
Slack 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
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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.
Slack 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
I actually had an idea for a sort of opposite slackbot: It would sit in all channels and keep track of the messages sent by each person. Then it could calculate how many man hours each person's messages had caused others to spend reading them. It could give you weekly feedback, and encourage you to focus your communication, and avoid spacing it out, but handling things in concentrated bursts, so you don't keep re-dis…
It can have a huge impact and isn't something that will necessarily come up on performance review.
"Thousands of business teams have ditched emails for Slack". Really, they did? Not us, we send emails for reference stuff all the time...
The 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.
"Thousands of business teams have ditched emails for Slack". Really, they did? Not us, we send emails for reference stuff all the time...
Whoa, 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 ble…
Slack 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
I actually had an idea for a sort of opposite slackbot: It would sit in all channels and keep track of the messages sent by each person. Then it could calculate how many man hours each person's messages had caused others to spend reading them. It could give you weekly feedback, and encourage you to focus your communication, and avoid spacing it out, but handling things in concentrated bursts, so you don't keep re-dis…