babolivier/matrix-poll-bot

The bot sometime ignores !poll messages

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RagingSquirrel commented

The matrix-poll-bot started and seam to work.

$ ./matrix-poll-bot ./config.yaml
INFO[0000] Syncing...
INFO[0061] Trying to join room !:<yyy.de> I was invited to
INFO[0062] Successfully joined room !:<yyy.de>

Then I wrote in this room in Riot-web:
!poll Test

But nothing happened.
In the homeserver.log from Synapse I didn't found anything enlightening.
What can I try next?

RagingSquirrel commented

Ah. I have to enter !poll with the pollbot Matrix user. Now I am one step further.

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But now? How can enter the choices and start the poll?
Do I misunderstand something?

babolivier commented

Hey, as shown on the screenshot in the readme file, you need to send your message this way:

!poll [question]

🌮 Choice 1
🎉 Choice 2

The account sending it doesn't matter as long as it's in the same room as the bot. You can provide as many choices as you wish as long as each choice is written on a separate line and that line starts with an emoji (I know that a few emojis might not work, though, I need to fix the regexp I'm using).

There's a bit of input control missing here, it shouldn't have triggered if only provided with a question (and no choices). That's on the todo list as well as a !help command, I'll have a look at both when I have some time.

RagingSquirrel commented

Thanks for your quick answer.
But, I still don't get it.

As you can see on the screenshot.

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First Line, I send a "!poll Yes or No"
Then new/empty line. (I tried it also without an empty line)
On the second line a emoji, space, text
On the third line the same.
Then I send the message.

I tried it also with various emojis. But nothing happens.

babolivier commented

That is indeed really weird, and I can't seem to reproduce right away:

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I'll try to have a closer look at some point in the coming week and will keep you updated.

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