Why on messages sent with await channel.send

[MatthewBaggins]

Normally, Stampy sends messages to channels using the Response object. Passing a string to the why argument gives us a way to ask Stampy for why he gave particular responses

            return Response(
                confidence=Conf,
                text=self.dereference(text.partition(" ")[2], who) + "!",
                why=f"{who} told me to say it!",
            )

However, sometimes Stampy sends a message to a channel as a string via await channel.send syntax. This allows Stampy send a message to an arbitrary channel, rather than just "in Response" to a message that somebody else posted to the channel. However, in this case there is no why because there is no Response.

        await channel.send(make_post_question_message(question))

Giving "reasons why" is served by the Why module.

Maybe it would be possible to use Response with await channel.send but IDK. One alternative I see is just to make Stampy remember all the awaited messages he sends, e.g., by saving them to some new dictionary in Utilities that maps message IDs to their "why's". In this case, we would probably want to have a new method for doing await channel.send, which automatically saves the messages to that dictionary. The Why module would then need to be extended to make use of that dictionary.

[tayler6000]

I know this is an old post, but I'm not sure this is necessary. The why module is meant to debug responses when Stampy is prompted by a user. Automatic posts, such as the one in this screenshot, are not prompted, Stampy was just designed to post them. Any Stampy Dev should be familiar with what modules automatically post things like that.