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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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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-distracting people. Maybe it could even have weekly leaderboards with the people that managed to communicate the least disruptively with their colleagues.

Or it could be used as yet another metric of which people are willing to spend a bit of time to help their fellow colleagues.

It can have a huge impact and isn't something that will necessarily come up on performance review.

Good points here. We are shifting away from leaderboards. Stay tuned

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