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?

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

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

    • allywilson@lemmy.ml
      2·
      9 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·
        9 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·
          9 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.