What kind of bot would you like to see on SN?
1106 sats \ 28 comments \ @south_korea_ln 17 May meta
You probably have already seen the @hn bot which crawls the top post from hackernews. Or the former bot which was creating Nitter alternatives to Twitter links.
Can you think of any other bot that would make your SN life more pleasant, without opening the pandora box of spammy content?
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214 sats \ 6 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 17 May
A bot that periodically curated a selection of past posts, like a newsletter.
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58 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 17 May
Yes, great idea!
Maybe a "This day in Stacker News" type of thing.
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17 sats \ 4 replies \ @Fabs 17 May
+1! We have a winner!
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 19 May
I think that's already the goal of the SN Newsletter posts by Keyan. Not sure they're still happening.
But maybe something that shows random selections of these great posts of the past. Maybe that's what you meant.
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111 sats \ 2 replies \ @Fabs 19 May
Yeah, some sort of weekly or monthly "pinned post" in the "🔥"- section, featuring a given amount of posts from the past.
(@k00b 👀)
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 19 May
As a pinned post is fun.
My favorite idea for what this gets at is a random sort option.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs 19 May
Yep, im sold.
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 17 May
RemindMe bot PR is open for review!
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @south_korea_ln OP 19 May
Hehe, FOSS team, are you?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 19 May
Aye!
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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 17 May
I feel like HN Bot works because it's really the only one of its kind here. We've already got issues with links from some sites getting not-quite-spammed, but bots would only increase that.
That said, a bot that's only occasionally posting (like the one @0xbitcoiner suggests) and which is surfacing old and/or overlooked content sounds like it has potential.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 19 May
Occasional posting, for sure. @hn found a good balance imho.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinAbhi 17 May
A bot like no other bot. The most powerful one. The almighty bot! Haha!
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nout 18 May
None?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 19 May
Yeah, don't want to get the Twitter style spam where huge bot accounts post annoying engagement farming content.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @random_ 17 May
ITT: bad ideas
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 19 May
Didn't see the ground-break idea just yet, but who knows. Something might be useful.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @guts 17 May
Some bot to crawl subreddit for territories.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 19 May
If it helps bring redditers here, why not. But this has to be thought out carefully.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Maximux 17 May
I would like a Bot with updated statistical data about Bitcoin: number of blocks mined in real time, current price, and other data of interest.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @OneOneSeven 17 May
How about a @ZappyHourBot, that zaps randomly across the site for a random hour of the day. Any zaps it receives go towards the next Zappy Hour.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 19 May
Hehe, gotta fund that bot though. Not a rich OG here :)
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheWildHustle 17 May
A nostr bot that gives us an updated 4 hour trending breakdown.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 19 May
I actually quite like this one. Other than my occasional NOSTR crossposting, I don't regularly visit my NOSTR client these days. Even though I know there are some people that post quality content there, and only there.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Coinsreporter 17 May
No bot on SN. Keep them away, they suck.
I want that everything on SN is beautiful like handicrafts after we buy all factory made things.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 19 May
I get your point. I agree that good content usually must show some POW. That's also why I usually downvote the annoying generic AI-generated content.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei 17 May
I think an ~earth bot would be nice. My cultural versatility has improved by leaps n bounds since I joined here. I never ceased to be amazed at the variety of nationalities represented here on SN
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 19 May
How would that bot work? Should it crawl data from other resources that show the different cultures of our earth?
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