Larger refactoring and added avoidlist

helpers/load-avoid-list.ts

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+import * as fileSystem from 'fs';
+import { AvoidList } from '../models/avoid-list';
+
+/**
+ * Returns a list of users that the bot should avoid being in same channel as.
+ * @returns avoidList
+ */
+export function loadAvoidList(): AvoidList {
+    return JSON.parse(fileSystem.readFileSync("avoid-list.json", 'utf-8'));
+}