GitHub - tubbadu/lemmy-haiku-bot: a bot to detect haikus in posts and comments
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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@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    a Haiku bot falls into your “triggered by accident” category (any post that is 17 syllables).

    Only if opt-out, as the original Haiku bot in the defunct site. OP however made it opt-in, so in order to trigger it you need two conditions - to actively subscribe to the bot and post a 17-syllables comment. The first one won’t happen on accident.

    a Haiku bot also does not add any new contextual information (it just duplicates a comment).

    Arguably it highlights that the post has 17 syllables in a shape that is suitable to build a haiku with, but in general I agree with you. It is not the kind of bot that I personally would inscribe in my comms, nor that I’d use myself.

    Even then, a few people like this sort of gimmick, so there’s some subjective value for some people. (Certainly not for both of us.)

    so I’m asking OP: “why create a bot to spam lemmy with low-value duplicate content, if you don’t even like that bot yourself?”

    OP himself answered it - “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!”

    It’s a low-hanging fruit, and a few people wanted it.

    • PicoBlaanket@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      “OP made it opt-in”

      1 - It’s not opt-in “By User” though. It’s opt-in “By Community”…

      So if one person turns it on, 1000’s of other people see it.

      OP keeps saying “you can just toggle it off”… but I really can’t… when anyone can toggle it back on.

      2 - Future options for toggling are not much better (bottom of the repo, To-Do section):

      • “if a moderator adds the haiku-bot, non-mod users cannot remove it”

      • “only allow moderators to subscribe/unsubscribe”

      …so the toggle option wouldn’t apply to 99% of people anyway.

      “a few users were waiting for this (-OP)”

      Who was waiting for it? The top level replies in this thread are:

      • you, who wouldn’t use it
      • me, who doesn’t want it
      • Otome, who doesn’t like it

      I think your bot rules are pretty solid though.

      Overall, I just feel like… Lemmy is a fresh space…

      a chance to make a new culture…

      maybe it’s best to leave that old bloated carcass behind.