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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'd like to hear some feedback on this, or approach vectors.

Right now the bot is rather spammy. I was hoping that by using Reddits HOT feed, it would return have some level of quality control (I know, right?). Unfortunately, it seems that in most cases, it will just return anything that's new. The downside of this is that a lot of garbage gets through, and the bot spends a lot of time scraping the underlying page to get the details.

I propose to only archive reddit posts that have a karma score of 5 or higher. In case of subs that hide the karma scores of posts for a certain time, they'd have to be at least 2 hours old, so that the Reddit moderators can weed out garbage on our behalf.

Do you folks have any thoughts on this?

Secondly, I want to put sticky comments on each community, with links to native Lemmy communities that cover the same subject. For this I would need some kind of API, or a master list of... oh, I see sub.rehab has just the thing I need. So expect that somewhere this week :).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s good but I want to ask something. Can’t you just add lemmit label after content instead of top of it? It’s kinda annoying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I could, but I'm afraid that would lead to even more people who don't realize they're looking at copied content. I get enough messages from people who misunderstand the bot as it is :/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ok fair enough. Maybe you can keep "This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot." on top but the other on bottom. Just an idea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This might be a controversial idea - and I’m not sure how feasible it is, but could the bot modify the upvote count of the post in this instance when the Reddit post is pulled in, to match the upvote count from Reddit at the time of import? I personally glance at the upvote count a lot when scrolling, and it’s a little jarring that all the posts are at 1.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's probably technically feasible, because I control both the bot and the server. But it would require some hacky stuff (I don't known any Rust, the language Lemmy is built in). And beside, it would feel rather cheaty. It wouldn't just mess with how it would appear on this server, but on other servers as well - they probably wouldn't take kindly to that kind of manipulation. Nor should they.

So ehm.. No.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Ah, I hasn’t considered how that might affect other instances’ “all” feeds. Yeah, that sounds like a quick way to get defederated everywhere. Oh well, womp womp

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

a karma score of 5

Seems rather generous! I see no problem with that. Hell, you could probably make it 20 or more, depending on how many active subscribers a subreddit has.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Sounds great!