# Try bot, a bot that teaches staff about Discourse

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/try-bot-a-bot-that-teaches-staff-about-discourse/26004>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [March 5, 2015, 5:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/try-bot-a-bot-that-teaches-staff-about-discourse/26004 "2015-03-05T05:50:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/try-bot-a-bot-that-teaches-staff-about-discourse/26004/14 "2016-02-13T20:46:19Z")

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I am a huge fan of a “Discourse walk through” bot.

It can guide you through using Discourse in a single topic.

“Try uploading a picture”  
“Good”  
“Now try bolding some words in a post you make”  
“Good”  
“Now try quoting something I said”  
“Good”

Etc.

It could all be done in a private message to avoid cluttering the general view of things.

I think it can even be more effective than [Markdown Reference](http://commonmark.org/help/) cause it is far more “fun” and can be a lot less strict.

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