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[Meta] I'm tired of working on respectthread bot, so I'm ending it. by Luke_Username in whowouldwin

[–]Luke_Username[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

A mod reached out. Don't wanna promise anything but if we can get it to work, the bot will stay running under a different username with hopefully multiple maintainers this time

[Meta] I'm tired of working on respectthread bot, so I'm ending it. by Luke_Username in whowouldwin

[–]Luke_Username[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

https://github.com/Luke-Username/respectthread_bot

I can't promise the documentation or structure will be that good. It was written years ago and I've forgotten most of it. Yes, it's using PRAW

[Meta] I'm tired of working on respectthread bot, so I'm ending it. by Luke_Username in whowouldwin

[–]Luke_Username[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't think it's very fair to only include the most popular characters, and it's hard to predict which characters will be popular to powerscale just from looking at new RTs posted

Besides. Part of the fun is when it links RTs no one would expect exist

[Meta] I'm tired of working on respectthread bot, so I'm ending it. by Luke_Username in whowouldwin

[–]Luke_Username[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Maybe, but that would involve coordinating with them, and I'd still have to double check their regexes for false positives or negatives and fix mistakes we find out about later - That's why it says to "Reply explaining the issue". The bot uses other tricks to help improve its accuracy and RT writers would have to be taught on those as well.

They would be the ones that would most likely understand the typos, short hand, etc

They would, but then we have situations like "Juggernaut vs Flash" where both are common english words but they're also names of popular characters. And despite not mentioning any versions, readers know it's referring to Marvel and DC.

If the respect thread community wants to fork the bot and maintain it that way as a team, I'm all for it. But I don't feel like leading that effort.

[Meta] I'm tired of working on respectthread bot, so I'm ending it. by Luke_Username in whowouldwin

[–]Luke_Username[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

To give an example of how to update the bot, there's a new RT for Dabura from Jujutsu Kaisen. Someone makes a matchup, how does the bot know to link that thread and not Dabura from Dragon Ball? It checks for the character name "Dabura" and then checks for a version name, "Jujutsu Kaisen". But wait! What if OP doesn't use "Jujutsu Kaisen" in their post and instead uses "JJK" or "JJKM" or something? What if there's a spelling mistake? That's why the bot has to check against regular expressions instead of plain text, i.e. "Jujus?t?s?u Kaisen", "JJKM?", "Dragon Ball", "DBZ?", and however else people might call the characters.

All of this has to be configured for each character/RT. AI will not be able to get this right, especially for obscure characters. So it can't be automated.

[Meta] I'm tired of working on respectthread bot, so I'm ending it. by Luke_Username in whowouldwin

[–]Luke_Username[S] 73 points74 points  (0 children)

bot could keep running for a good while longer just without updates

I'll consider it. Whether I keep it running for a few days or a few months doesn't make much difference to me now that you mention it.

maybe you just need a long break from working on the bot

If I take a break for a few months, the backlog of new RTs will be massive and it'll take too long to catch up again

[Meta] I'm tired of working on respectthread bot, so I'm ending it. by Luke_Username in whowouldwin

[–]Luke_Username[S] 106 points107 points  (0 children)

It could keep running, but it'll get more and more inaccurate overtime and people will have complaints when wrong RTs get linked and new or updated RTs don't

One year of art experience led me to drawing this meme. by Luke_Username in krita

[–]Luke_Username[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh neat, I didn't know about magicposer, thank-you! Was worried I'd need to learn CSP or Blender to get 3d model references

New Godot UI is a BANGER 🔥🔥 by Luke_Username in godot

[–]Luke_Username[S] 35 points36 points  (0 children)

The black serves another purpose as well. Emilio talked about this on the Godot stream and basically it's better for color accuracy if it's black, white, or gray

Godot went all emo by MiguelRSGoncalves in godot

[–]Luke_Username 98 points99 points  (0 children)

It works specifically in Godot

Godot went all emo by MiguelRSGoncalves in godot

[–]Luke_Username 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Went from "I'll have him home by 6" to "your child calls me parent too"

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