two points

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 9 February 2017 at 19:58:57 UTC, Seb wrote:
> We gave this a try a couple of months ago with Facebook's 
> mention-bot:
>
> Example: 
> https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/4318#issuecomment-241817191
> Repo: https://github.com/dlang-bots/mention-bot
>
> Eventually I disabled it because people complained about the 
> added noise.

It's great that you gave this a go.  Seriously, people considered 
one small informative post in the PR to be "added noise"? :-(

Out of curiosity: is it typical that it would not post until some 
way into the discussion (as in that example)?  I could see why it 
would be irritating if it popped up once discussion and review 
had already started happening.

Assuming that the bot can be relied on to be 'first responder' to 
any PR, I'm happy to try to draft an alternative text for it to 
post (and maybe also look at what texts it can link to).