boardgames @feddit.de Hari Seldon @lemm.ee 2y ago

Proposal for a community bot

I've just had this idea. Why don't we create a bot that scans comments and replies to them with boardgamegeek links for every game found in the comment?

To simplify the implementation I would be favourable to introduce some sort of syntax to make unambiguous whether or not some words are a game name or not.

What do you think about this idea?

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On reddit, several video game subreddits had the relevant names in brackets, which got parsed and linked to a wiki,...

E.g. Hey, if you want to get [Ability] you have to talk to [Person] at [Place] and fulfill their quest line. Also you'd need to pay 5 [Ressource]

Depending on the search function of BGG, one might even link to categories, mechanisms,...
- This is even better than what I was thinking. I wonder if Lemmy APIs allows it tho.
  
  I am not opposed to the idea. If you need my support as the mod, please feel free to reach out
- Do you have an example or a link to a git repo?
  
  I remember u/spirescan-bot for r/slaythespire. It uses double braces, but works this way.
  
  Here's a random old post from the bot about new features where users are testing these: https://www.reddit.com/r/slaythespire/comments/d8t92r/new_bot_features/
  
  The bot comments don't link to its source, but searching the bot username on Google leads to this repository, that looks good at afirst glance. Seems to be a python bot and the source code contains the URL of the Slay The Spire Wiki: https://github.com/painebenjamin/spirescanbot
Check out this awesome bot that was recently built for /r/boardgames :

https://github.com/HgCNO2/reddit-bggfetcherbot
I don’t mind this kind of bot activity. Saves me from having to go look it up. Just my 2¢
No promises, but gonna see if I can toss something together. Gonna use this a test post.

[[Bot Factory]]
- Bot Factory on BoardGameGeek
  
  Looking alright for an MVP. Now just need to prevent duplicate comments, add a bot disclaimer, do a little code cleanup, and remember the password to my server.
  
  Honestly, I'm most concerned about that last item...
  
  Edit: one more test [[Robo Rally]] [[Arkham Horror]]
- This i great, thank you!
- [[Concordia]]
I'm probably in the minority but I am not a fan of bot posts sprinkled into the thread. I am happy with just having the game names Clearly Marked or Manually Linked.

It's easy enough to block a bot though.
- I agree with you, but a lot of traffic comes in from mobile and its bit more cumbersome to add the links properly
- I'm okay with a bot providing extra context. It's easy to block for those who don't want it.
  
  I do hope that people will get into the habit of making game titles bold. It makes it so much easier to scan a ton of comments to see if a particular game is being talked about.
Like it.

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