Hello fellow Lemmings! the first version of the haiku-bot is out! anyone can add or remove it in any community by simply mentioning him and asking to subscribe:
!Haiku-bot SUBSCRIBE
when added to a community, it will read every comment (not posts currently) and if he detects the 5-7-5 syllable pattern typical of haikus will reply formatting it in a nice way! If it becomes too spammy you can remove it by just commenting:
!haiku-bot UNSUBSCRIBE
currently it can be subscribed and unsubscribed by anyone, but if this will result in a problem please let me know and I’ll allow only mods to do this! any problem, bug, suggestion, insult, anything you wish is welcome!

hope you’ll enjoy it!

  • Lvxferre
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    1 year ago

    It’s fine if it’s visible to the whole community; my issue is when bots come uninvited by anyone, or interact with content of someone who didn’t invite it, as in Reddit. I feel like yours is already leagues better than Reddit ones in this regard.

    Plus if someone subscribe to a really annoying bot, to the point that annoys other users, other users will eventually ask to the first one “dude, please unsubscribe to this bot, you’re adding noise”.

    • tubbadu@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      My fear is that some users want this bot, other does not, and so it will be added and removed 16 times/day by different users… if this happens I’ll reserve the mods the ability to add and remove it to their communities, but I hope that this won’t be necessary

      • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        On Reddit I remember there were some bots where you could reply to them with a certain key phrase like “unsubscribe” and they would leave you alone after that.