Hi,

I want to gather some opinions on @daily_fourmula@lemmy.ml. 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
    2·
    7 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·
      7 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·
        7 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.