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by BallinCollin 3381 days ago
>Using her authority gave it enough power to get the team gather up for a call.

This is why I think the slackbots OP wrote were so effective. When you give a bot a name like MeetingBot it's easy to ignore the notifications. However when the bot carries authority of a manager or team member it's harder to ignore.

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It's also a question whether the activities are really important if you need tricks like that (pretending to be the authority) to get people to act...
And if your bot is sufficiently spammy, it could end up diluting your own authority!