Hi,

I want to gather some opinions on @[email protected]. It’s a bot posting math dailygames every day. I checked the last 14 days. Nobody commented on the bots’ posts, it barely receives any reactions at all.

I think the bot should stop posting games. I prefer active games over a bunch of automated empty threads. Quality over quantity.

Small problem though, I don’t even know who runs the bot. Banning it should be the absolute last resort. I’ve written a DM to the bot, waiting for an answer.

What do you think about the bot?

  • allywilson@lemmy.ml
    4·
    11 days ago

    Thank you for this.

    I’ve got my thinking cap on.

    Maybe allowing people to post their previous days result? Or maybe, a stopwatch counter (so you can post how quickly you did a puzzle)? Because they’re maths based it tends to be a single yes or no, rather than a continuous attempt at finding the answer.

    I wonder, if I post every day, but if you use your lemmy username as your name on the game, I’ll include you in the post and your solution for the puzzle from the previous day (you can view yesterdays solutions on the puzzle itself)?

    If it’s still not engaging with the above (hopefully I’ll find time this weekend to update), then I could stop the posts/combine them/lower it to weekly or similar.

      • squirrel@cake.kobel.fyiOPMEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        Very nice. The Lemmy integration is neat. Looking forward to getting a ping from the bot tomorrow.

        • allywilson@lemmy.ml
          2·
          10 days ago

          I hope it works as expected, difficult to test without a test Lemmy instance.

          Hopefully it introduces a level of discussion, I actually quite like looking at the way people get to the same answer via different means.

          I should be able to introduce this for the other puzzles, I guess the timing is still a question though - like, it rotates at 00:00 UTC, so I try to stagger the submissions with an hour plus 13 mins, or 17 mins, etc. but I think that will still appear as a “block” of submissions for people coming online in Europe and NA.

          • squirrel@cake.kobel.fyiOPMEnglish
            1·
            10 days ago

            It didn’t work, but I think it’s because I’ve saved my username only after I played. With the form being below the game I thought I could do it afterwards. I could test again, but lack the math skills to solve todays AddDown :) will try again later

            • allywilson@lemmy.ml
              2·
              10 days ago

              Yeah, the username is submitted when a successful answer is put in. I’ll leave it like this for a couple of days, see if it gets a bit more engagement if that’s Ok.