No doubt about that I'm the NUB...
But I think it looks cleaner maybe not the above with all the color/bold added...
But the "general" scripting style I find easier to figure out / I think looks cleaner
And what is you mean when you say redundant please give a small example ?

EDIT:
And yeah I do know the meaning of the word redundant :D :D hehe :P
iHope it isn't the setting the %CMD you mean... cause that I know... and I would just use ($strip($1) == W/E)
But I don't let people use bold or what ever for My bot cmds and again it was just if he couldn't get the ($strip($1) == W/E) to work... then the above would work...