# A Disco-Bot Test Thread
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-disco-bot-test-thread/920497
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [September 13, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-disco-bot-test-thread/920497 "2020-09-13T16:35:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-disco-bot-test-thread/920497/1 "2020-09-13T16:35:50Z")
A parallel test thread, because [in this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread/918131), it just ain’t working.
@discobot roll 2d6
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-disco-bot-test-thread/920497/2 "2020-09-13T16:37:16Z")
Maybe **discobot** got tired of being told to just go off and die somewhere.
:flees:
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### Author:  [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-disco-bot-test-thread/920497/3 "2020-09-13T16:39:03Z")
@discobot fortune
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### Author:  [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-disco-bot-test-thread/920497/4 "2020-09-13T16:39:05Z")
> 🔮 As I see it, yes
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### Author:  [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-disco-bot-test-thread/920497/5 "2020-09-13T16:39:38Z")
I guess I’m just lucky.
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### Author:  [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-disco-bot-test-thread/920497/6 "2020-09-13T16:40:41Z")
@discobot quote
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### Author:  [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-disco-bot-test-thread/920497/7 "2020-09-13T16:40:43Z")
> 🗨 _Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have laboured hard for._ — Socrates
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### Author:  [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-disco-bot-test-thread/920497/8 "2020-09-13T16:40:50Z")
Seriously. . . what’s going on? Discobot is seriously harshing my mellow, and is preventing some _serious_ hijinks on these here Straight Dope Message Boards.
@discobot roll 2d6
@discobot fortune
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### Author:  [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-disco-bot-test-thread/920497/9 "2020-09-13T16:44:39Z")
Is there some sort of setting I don’t have clicked? I’m totally confused.
@discobot
Tripler
I’m being beaten by a damn chat bot.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-disco-bot-test-thread/920497/10 "2020-09-13T18:08:11Z")
> [@Tripler](#):
>
> Seriously. . . what’s going on? Discobot is seriously harshing my mellow, and is preventing some _serious_ hijinks on these here Straight Dope Message Boards.
>
> @discobot roll 2d6
>
> @discobot fortune
Copy & paste of your post:
@discobot roll 2d6
@discobot fortune
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### Author:  [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-disco-bot-test-thread/920497/11 "2020-09-13T18:08:13Z")
> 🎲 6, 5
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-disco-bot-test-thread/920497/12 "2020-09-13T18:08:42Z")
Sorry, @Tripler, it’s just you.
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-disco-bot-test-thread/920497/13 "2020-09-13T18:25:21Z")
@discobot MAN DISCOBOT
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### Author:  [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-disco-bot-test-thread/920497/14 "2020-09-13T18:25:23Z")
Hi! To find out what I can do, say `@discobot display help`.
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### Author:  [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-disco-bot-test-thread/920497/15 "2020-09-13T18:38:38Z")
@discobot roll 3d6
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### Author:  [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-disco-bot-test-thread/920497/16 "2020-09-13T18:38:40Z")
> 🎲 4, 6, 5
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### Author:  [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2020, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-disco-bot-test-thread/920497/17 "2020-09-13T18:40:32Z")
@discobot display help
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### Author:  [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2020, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-disco-bot-test-thread/920497/18 "2020-09-13T18:40:33Z")
I currently know how to do the following things:
`@discobot start {name-of-tutorial}`
> Starts an interactive tutorial just for you, in a personal message. `{name-of-tutorial}` can be one of: `tutorial, advanced tutorial`.
`@discobot roll 2d6`
> 🎲 3, 6
`@discobot quote`
> 🗨 _The beginning is always today._ — Mary Wollstonecraft
`@discobot fortune`
> 🔮 You may rely on it
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### Author:  [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2020, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-disco-bot-test-thread/920497/19 "2020-09-13T18:40:56Z")
It seems @discobot has you on ignore.
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### Author:  [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2020, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-disco-bot-test-thread/920497/20 "2020-09-13T18:41:09Z")
@discobot roll 1d20
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