[judge2020]

> I don't write discord bots so you can type a slash command to do a thing. That's boring. Good bots can read messages. Discord will be very "not dope" and "not cool" if bots are forced to become a sterilized pick-list of interaction options.

Are there large bots that are particularly dynamic? Every bot i've seen with any real usage across servers has a !help command with a static set of commands. Plus, on almost all of them you can change the command prefix to a special character like `~`, which was very needed with multiple bots defaulting to the `!` character, thus causing multiple bots to respond at once to commands where the user only intended one bot to respond.

[Lt_Riza_Hawkeye]

I've seen a few markov chain bots which were hilarious. As another comment mentioned, they can also be used for automated moderation. I've also seen a few servers with a bot that lets you "level up" depending on how active you are

[Gaelan]

The level up bots should be unaffected by this, as they don’t need to read message contents—they just need to count messages.

[xboxnolifes]

Nadeko bot is a fairly big bot that has the ability to configure custom responses that the bot will reply with if a user types a certain message (any string of text, no prefix).

Core functionality is of course behind a prefix, but that's just convenient.

[anilakar]

Another popular bot, Mudae, allows the user to use both prefixed commands and slash commands, and the latter can take a few seconds to go through. Not acceptable when you have to fire ten or more commands at once in under half a minute.