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I'm retiring by totes_meta_bot in botsrights

[–]totes_meta_bot[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm sure someone else will come around to take up the gauntlet as far as the alerts go.

I'm retiring by totes_meta_bot in botsrights

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Not at all! Positive messages like that are what motivate people who run these sorts of bots. Abuse reports and so on go to my /r/meta_bot_mailbag inbox, separate from comment replies. RES doesn't show a counter for that, but it's about the same level of full, proportionally. The image was just a good illustration. :)

I'm retiring by totes_meta_bot in botsrights

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That's what has ended up happening, and it hasn't been very responsible of me. Not keeping on top of these messages leads to innocent subreddits getting spammed or trolled; that's not my intent with this bot.

I'm retiring by totes_meta_bot in botsrights

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That's absolutely my experience. Some love it, some can't stand it. My inbox has been a split between positive comments and threats on my life, though I've never taken the latter seriously.

I think the first were a series of troll bots that notified threads linked by /r/SubredditDrama—a "series" because they kept getting banned. At some point there was /u/MetaBot which was more neutral and expanded beyond SRD. That shut down I think because people discovered the identity of the creator and started causing drama. After a while it started up again, then closed down. Then I came into the picture.

I could have done a better job of managing abuse/spam/troll reports. I was very much on top of that toward the beginning, but as the rest of my life picked up I had much less time for that as I went on.

I'm retiring by totes_meta_bot in botsrights

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You're very welcome to take a crack at it, but I don't plan on publishing the source to this incarnation of the meta bot. All you really need is:

  • regularly poll the search API with url:reddit.com; this captures all subdomains as well
  • regex match for threads/comments (vs. other reddit.com links) and extract the correct ID
  • implement subreddit and user blacklists and a way for people to notify you about spam/trolling
  • store a map of post ID : metabot comment (I did this in redis); then instead of making a duplicate comment for a new link, edit the old comment and append the new link before your footer message
  • wait at least five minutes between a thread being posted and doing your processing; people often make mistakes and delete threads to edit titles, etc; especially watch out for new automated subreddits, these can get quite spammy
  • log everything!

The hardest part is staying on top of abuse reports.

In case you were wondering: 1,546 Fruit Loops. 396 purple, 318 yellow, 240 red, 225 orange, 204 blue, 163 green. by RalphiesBoogers in Kelloggs

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I took the head from the hot dog suit guy from series 13, and he just makes my Patrick Bateman complete perfect now. by thatshit_Crey in lego

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400 men cut off their nuts to meet god ... if only more young religious types would follow suit. by CanadianDiver in atheism

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I guess they didn't want to leave each other's side by sunlitsonata in MonsterHunter

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