Can we create a bot to auto delete posts that don't link properly
Can we create a bot to auto delete posts that don't link properly
If people can't be arsed enough to even get their post format correct, they don't deserve the free promotion.
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there is a bot that corrects the links, maybe we should improve that
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Yep, feel free to offer suggestion for improvement (or link to false positives, so I can fix that)!
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One thing I've noticed is the bot seems to "correct" people who include both the Lemmy-friendly link and the actual URL in their post. I've seen this a few times, although it's possible the posters are editing the posts to add this in response to the bot. It'd be nice if the bot could check for this.
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Fyi your bot is apparently trying to "correct" people posting from Mastodon too. Seems like it's replying to every comment that comes through from Mastodon's side. Example: https://lemmy.world/post/1628806
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If people can’t be arsed enough to even get their post format correct (when it is clearly described in the post rules), they don’t deserve the free promotion.
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To be fair the post rules don't explain how the ! syntax works.
!community@instan.cebtw.That's also the only format that works across platforms.
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Not sure if it works on kbin? !newcommunities
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To be fair, if you can't figure out how the syntax works based on the clear text, and usage everywhere else in Lemmy, you shouldn't be allowed to host a community.
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I wish the post rules would also include what to do for kbin.
At the moment if I'm interested in a community I often have to write the url myself.
Also I don't know how to format kbin urls for lemmy users to follow.
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Lemmy community for kbin: /search?q=newcommunities@lemmy.world
Technically the actual link is /m/newcommunities@lemmy.world, but if your kbin instance has no subscribers to that community yet, you have to first find it with the first link and subscribe to it, otherwise you get a 404.
At least on kglitch.social, using
!newcommunities@lemmy.worldseems to work like a combination of both: Searching for it when kglitch.social doesn't know about it yet, going to /m/community if kglitch.social does know about it.
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