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It would be great to see Slack put some work in here, but could someone make an app (or Slackbot) to enforce/offer guidance?

I know Slack culture can be hugely variable over time, especially for high-growth companies so there definitely needs to be some flexibility.

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Part of the reason Slack culture is hugely variable as organizations change is precisely because there are few easily available, broadly understood default tools to reduce that variability.

One could say the same for code style - it's hugely variable as more people come onto the team, but with linters a particular standardization of style can be followed.

My post is basically asking: what if we had etiquette linters?

I've seen a few orgs build their own etiquette-enforcement bots for things like channel naming conventions, as well as minimum "guidelines listed" in the channel description (like periodically going through all channels and checking to see if channel description has SLAs etc). But it's all organisation or team-specific.

And for about 98% of orgs, building a bot to enforce conventions is definitely not getting prioritised above BAU or project work.

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