Using a bot for a period of time to generate activity and then disabling once engagement is sustained, vs sticking to humans but have zero engagement… I think it’s pretty clear where the value is. Thanks for creating that bot :)
@RandomDude please!
Edit: another thought, given that this is the fediverse, nothing really prevents the creation of a community (in this instance or another) that has the bot, and experiment to see which approach is most effective.
Edit 2: I just realized, if it’s based on RSS, it won’t auto update if the past is deleted or marked as expired right?
Unfortunately it won’t detect deleted or expired posts. Perhaps there’s clever tricks to check periodically if a post is still alive on Reddit via a get request, but that’d be expensive to implement and hard to test on the reddit side; however it’s worth trying when we get there :)
Using a bot for a period of time to generate activity and then disabling once engagement is sustained, vs sticking to humans but have zero engagement… I think it’s pretty clear where the value is. Thanks for creating that bot :)
@RandomDude please!
Edit: another thought, given that this is the fediverse, nothing really prevents the creation of a community (in this instance or another) that has the bot, and experiment to see which approach is most effective.
Edit 2: I just realized, if it’s based on RSS, it won’t auto update if the past is deleted or marked as expired right?
Unfortunately it won’t detect deleted or expired posts. Perhaps there’s clever tricks to check periodically if a post is still alive on Reddit via a get request, but that’d be expensive to implement and hard to test on the reddit side; however it’s worth trying when we get there :)
Yeah… that Reddit get request would probably get shutdown by Reddit so quickly.
But hey, maybe it’s something to live with if it means this community’s activity improves…