a bot to detect haikus in posts and comments. Contribute to tubbadu/lemmy-haiku-bot development by creating an account on GitHub.
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!
The issue with bots in Reddit was less about their existence, and more about how unsolicited, forced, and pushy they were, since the administration of that site never imposed some limits on what a bot could/couldn't do. But at the end of the day they're just a tool, and need to be treated as such - prevent abuse, don't just kill the tech.
This is easy to prove by looking at the extremes:
Roboragi - only triggered by request, subreddit-specific, providing contextual information relevant to the discussion
CommonMisspellingBot - triggered by accident, regardless of subreddit, bossing you around with off-topic prescription
It's clear why one was loved, another hated. And yet both are bots.
And OP is simply testing the viability of the tech here, based on what he says.
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".
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!