A few years ago I created a Telegram channel which pulls around 10 top voted news every day from r/Vancouver and post it there: https://t.me/vancitynews It’s a handy way to get local news, try it out

Now I’m thinking: Is it a good idea to automatically post those news here to spark a discussions and make this community more alive? Is it even allowed to automatically post anything? What do you think?

I’m pretty sure that the new Reddit policy will not affect my channel which calls reddit.com just a handful times per day

  • TruckBCMA
    2·
    2 years ago

    Hey, I’ve been put in place as the moderator of this community as well as /c/BritishColumbia.

    I have experience creating an offshoot community of r/Vancouver when I took over r/NiceVancouver.

    The bot is a good idea but organically posted content is much more effective. I would kindly ask that at this time you turn it off for right now but I would be very interested in touching base with you in private to see what you can do with your skills to grow the community. I have at least one idea from a comment on this thread that would be easy to implement.

    At this point unfortunately the bot comes off more as spam than anything positive that users will want to engage with.

    Many people on Reddit know me, once word gets out that I’m here, the community will liven up really quick I think.

    • EugeneOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      Well, that was an attempt… Thank you for monitoring the community and reaching out. I’m switching the bot off.

      If you find it suitable, there is also an option to decrease the number of posts so it’s less spammy

      • EugeneOP
        1·
        2 years ago

        Taking about settings I can adjust right now, they are

        • number of posts
        • period over which top posts are being looked
        • mimimum upvotes threshold
        • subbredits from which posts are gathered
        • exclusions of any particular sources

        My friend and I also thinking about utilizing ChatGPT to create a summary of the article as well as to add some intellegent filtering but this is a long term (may be never) type of a pet projects

        Let me know if you find something to be particular interesting or have other ideas