Ability to hide command parameters in reply

[Crocross]

Hello, I was thinking it would be nice in certain situations if there was an ability to hide the command parameters used while still having the bot reply to the base command.

For instance, if a user runs a command but they don't want others to see a URL or some sort of input they could have a flag "hidden" set to true and then the bot would still do its thing but not show the parameters.

it could show like /commandname ... with the reply but won't show /commandname url: someurl data:somesecretdata

I know you can delete the reply and follow up or have it be ephemeral and have a follow up but that's not the same thing and I'd still want other users to know what command was run.

[valdotle]

In such cases, you'll want to reply with an initial ephemeral response and send your actual public response as a follow-up message.

[Crocross]

Yeah, but that won't show the actual command that was run still. I know you could technically follow up and specify the command but it's not quite the same idea. Just my opinion though of course.

[AlmostSuspense]

do you have a specific usecase where you'd want the command to be seen, but not the options, and where sending a normal message wouldn't work?

[Crocross]

There are a few different things and I know you can do the follow up but for instance a sort of "hangman" type of game where a user could go /game word:hiddenword. Ideally the command shows that I started "game" but I don't want them to see the word. I could have the follow up just say "A game of ... started, start your own with ..." but again I'd rather they are just able to see the command.

[Crocross]

@appellation , if this is not a feature that would happen then we can mark that as the answer but I'm specifically looking for something that does not do that because I want the command itself to show but not one of the inputs (almost as if it was a password field and it'd come out as *** instead of whatever the user passed in. I'll leave it to you to decide on if you want to leave that marked as the answer though and I'll work around it scrapping the idea in general.

[appellation]

This won't be implemented, so I'd highly recommend using the suggested workaround.

[Crocross]

Closing as this won't be implemented and different workarounds exist.