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!
Thank you for making it toggleable per community and per user. This sort of bot might be fun for some people, but outright annoying for others. And I feel like this creates a good precedent, as other bot makers will see yours and say “hey, I should make mine toggleable too”.
It can be toggled by anyone but the toggle would affect the whole community atm, I’m not able to make its messages visible only so some users yet, although it would be very very nice! perhaps blocking the bot account can be a way to hide all its posts? I’ll think about this!
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”.
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
thanks for making it opt-in rather than opt-out or non-toggleable. I’ve never liked the haiku bot on reddit since it never made much sense to me. but it’s nice to see development going on regardless. :)
fun fact, I’ve never liked them much neither XD but I wanted to try something easy to learn bot development on lemmy and a few users were waiting for this and so here I am!
Here’s a human haiku:
bots are part of what made reddit such a wasteland. most bots are just spam. i wish lemmy would remain a place for humans. why can’t we just talk?I absolutely agree, that’s why I made it togglable by anyone who likes
If you agree that most bots are spam, then why are you making and promoting bots?
because most bots are spam doesn’t mean that all bots are spam. unrequested invasive bots are definitely spam, but bots that can be enabled or disabled freely do nothing wrong IMO
Okay - What value does a haiku bot add?
It only tells you that a post was 17 syllables…
- and then duplicates a comment (spam),
- and then stretches the duplicated comment vertically (spam).
so you are able to not subscribe to it or even block it if you want
You did not answer the question… I asked you:
How is a haiku bot not invasive spam?
It’s basically the same as the “all numbers in your post add up to 69” bot.
some people enjoys it, some people doesn’t. from wikipedia:
Spamming is the use of messaging systems to send multiple unsolicited messages (spam) to large numbers of recipients for the purpose of commercial advertising, for the purpose of non-commercial proselytizing, for any prohibited purpose (especially the fraudulent purpose of phishing), or simply repeatedly sending the same message to the same user.
the keyword is unsolicited: you don’t want it? just don’t add it to your communities. you want it? add it to your community. it doesn’t bother you at all if it’s unsolicited.
