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Haiku-bot 1.0 out now!

Hello fellow Lemmings! the first version of the haiku-bot is out! anyone can add or remove it in any community by simply mentioning him and asking to subscribe:
!Haiku-bot SUBSCRIBE
when added to a community, it will read every comment (not posts currently) and if he detects the 5-7-5 syllable pattern typical of haikus will reply formatting it in a nice way! If it becomes too spammy you can remove it by just commenting:
!haiku-bot UNSUBSCRIBE
currently it can be subscribed and unsubscribed by anyone, but if this will result in a problem please let me know and I'll allow only mods to do this! any problem, bug, suggestion, insult, anything you wish is welcome!

hope you'll enjoy it!

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  • Here’s a human haiku: 

     undefined
        
bots are part of what
made reddit such a wasteland.
most bots are just spam.

i wish lemmy would
remain a place for humans.
why can’t we just talk?

    • I absolutely agree, that's why I made it togglable by anyone who likes

    • The issue with bots in Reddit was less about their existence, and more about how unsolicited, forced, and pushy they were, since the administration of that site never imposed some limits on what a bot could/couldn't do. But at the end of the day they're just a tool, and need to be treated as such - prevent abuse, don't just kill the tech.

      This is easy to prove by looking at the extremes:

      • Roboragi - only triggered by request, subreddit-specific, providing contextual information relevant to the discussion
      • CommonMisspellingBot - triggered by accident, regardless of subreddit, bossing you around with off-topic prescription

      It's clear why one was loved, another hated. And yet both are bots.

      And OP is simply testing the viability of the tech here, based on what he says.

      • 1 - Yes - some bots are helpful, some (most) are annoying:

        • a Haiku bot falls into your "triggered by accident" category (any post that is 17 syllables).
        • a Haiku bot also does not add any new contextual information (it just duplicates a comment).

        That's why I'm saying the haiku bot is junk.

        2 - In this very post, when Otome said "I never liked the Haiku Bot"... OP responded "I’ve never liked them much either"...

        so I'm asking OP: "why create a bot to spam lemmy with low-value duplicate content, if you don't even like that bot yourself?"

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