I got the bot working! People who say “thanks” or “thank” or “thx” followed by pinging someone will give that person 1 rep point.

I setup the SQLite database with Drizzle ORM.

I had lots of trouble with getting the bot to recognize that messages were even sent, so I went to Stardance’s slack bot guide for help with setting up my bot properly. I don’t know what exactly I changed to fix it, but the bot started recognizing new messages sent in the channel after I added all the permissions the guide said to add.