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Just coming here to say I think this bot is very useful. I don't want all the negative comments to get you down.
When I see a sub I don't recognize, my first reaction is to check the top posts. This saves me time on mobile, and it's not obtrusive.
Thanks for your contribution to Reddit.
If you could work with RES to add this as a feature people could toggle on or off, it might make everybody happy.
sneakpeekbot [OP]
Thanks for the kind words. Could you elaborate on what you mean with integrating with RES, sounds very interesting
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I'm not sure who to contact about it, but I think the RES team might be interested in implementing a subreddit preview feature (kind of like their media/wiki preview) that users can customize.
For example, when somebody includes a link to a subreddit in their post/comment, RES might add a button next to it that could be pressed to open a preview panel with customizable info about the sub, like:
- Top posts of [all time / last month]
- Current hottest posts
- Subscriber count
- Age of the sub
- Average age of top 25 posts (a sign of when the sub "peaked")
The advantages are that this would be personally customizable and less obtrusive - the disadvantage is that it would only be available to RES users. I don't know what proportion of Reddit uses RES.
I'm not an expert on coding or anything, but I think it would be pretty easy to inject something like that into HTML and make your own Chrome extension, separate from RES, if you wanted.
Hope that helps!
sneakpeekbot [OP]
Hmm that's an interesting idea. I think a lot of the people that find the bot useful are mobile users and wouldn't have access to RES or browser plugins. Also, afaik, RES already does do something with linked subreddits by showing the subscriber count and creation date. I'll post it as a feature request for them but I'd have nothing to do with it.
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Sparkdog
If I may offer feedback, people link to other subreddits in comments ALOT, so this seems a bit intrusive and unnecessary.
sneakpeekbot [OP]
Done
It has conditions built in to try and minimise the unnecessary replies
BlankVerse
You're banned by /r/BotBust, so you'll (eventually) be banned by the 260+ subs that use BotBust.
https://np.reddit.com/r/BotBust/comments/5lodbw/overview_for_sneakpeekbot/?ref=search_posts
sneakpeekbot [OP]
Thanks a lot for the heads up. Anywhere I can get a list of those 260 subs?
BlankVerse
I thought you could follow the breadcrumbs, but apparently not.
https://www.reddit.com/user/BotBust
Then look at all the subs that they moderate.
Your bot is also also being regularly reported as spam, so I wouldn't be surprised if the admins get involved.
https://np.reddit.com/r/BotBust/duplicates/5lodbw/overview_for_sneakpeekbot/
sneakpeekbot [OP]
Right, thanks. Most of them I'm already banned from and the rest are the "ImagesOfX" subreddits so not a huge blow all things considered
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Arowin
This should not be an opt-out thing. It should be opt-in. It is spam otherwise.
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fuck off
Please don't: write bots that reply to comments or send private messages without solicitation.
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sneakpeekbot [OP]
Done
Bamce
Maksyre
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andrewsmd87
Side note, what is it you're after with doing this? Genuinely curious, not meaning to sound like a dick
sneakpeekbot [OP]
Done
Nothing really. I use reddit a lot and I thought a bot like this could be useful to people. Soon enough I'll make the source code publicly available and leave it running autopilot on a server (is currently on a free server).
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/u/Dafierces_Roommate kindly asks that you stop following him around and trumpeting whenever he crosslinks.
sneakpeekbot [OP]
Done
Klathmon
Only wish I could stop this fucking thing from clogging up others comments.
sneakpeekbot [OP]
Done
BlankVerse
Already 948 opt-outs, not including the 261 subs that subscribe to /u/BotBust who eventually ban your bot. Maybe you should take the hint that a lot of users and subs don't like your bot.
sneakpeekbot [OP]
Divide by 2 because of me replying "Done", then subtract all the people with troll replies, the people who aren't mods and then the people who post in the wrong thread (like yourself). I think karma is a decent measure and 65k in just over a month speaks for itself. Also, most of the people who love the bot message me directly or reply to the comments themselves so you're not getting the full picture :)
slater126
comment karma is not a good measure for a bot that is constantly posting. they will always have high karma.
sneakpeekbot [OP]
Comment karma only counts on score of 2 or more so it's not like posting 10,000 comments will result in a minimum of +10,000 karma. Also, I don't know of a better measure.
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I fucking hate this stupid fucking useless pointless shitty bot. Fuck off and die you fucking prick.
sneakpeekbot [OP]
Done
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TotesMessenger
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anotheranotherother
Why is this not opt-in? blacklist me, or better yet, delete this bot
sneakpeekbot [OP]
It might be wise for you to follow what everyone else was doing in this thread and type out your username in the comment :)
reallybro_usesearch
For the record, I find your bot incredibly useless/annoying. It's not at all difficult to click through if you want to see the top posts for a given subreddit; the bot seems to be solving a problem that doesn't actually exist. It's especially awful in subreddits where most posts only get a few comments.
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TerrorBite
Do you handle blacklisting manually?
It doesn't seem like it would be hard to automate a blacklist system, for example by PMing the bot with a #blacklistme tag.
If sent from a user, the bot won't reply to that user anymore. If sent from a subreddit via modmail, the bot won't post in that subreddit anymore.
How about a link on each comment to send a PM to the bot to remove a particular comment after it's posted? The bot would only accept this PM from the person who the bot had replied to. I have seen other bots using this system successfully.
sneakpeekbot [OP]
It's semi-automated. I have to manually run a "check-blacklist-post-for-blacklist-requests" program to add people to the blacklist. I already have this PM me method prepared but I'm not sure what to do about the API calls. Because, for me to check my inbox and act on it at some frequency I'd have to delay (or even skip) my comments scanning for a time - just trying to work that out before I add it
2_hearted
fidelis_ad_mortem
You looked at for a map
sneakpeekbot [OP]
Sorry I couldn't get to you in time
fidelis_ad_mortem
I go to Egypt
sneakpeekbot [OP]
Yeah, I saw that you banned me already so I didn't blacklist it. You shouldn't be receiving messages then.
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hatperigee
suck it bot, don't reply to me
slorebear
Delete this stupid bot. Blacklist all of reddit
siouxsie_siouxv2
nukefudge
jpflathead
Hey /u/sneakpeekbot you have learned what you can do.
Not you should learn what you should not do.
Please take your bot and your code and your keyboard and your phone and shove them up your ass you fucking asshole.
sneakpeekbot [OP]
Done
translator-BOT
Opt out for /u/translator-BOT, please.
(Bot post immediately following a bot post is not a good sight...)
Lucky_Asian
TotesMessenger
I'm a bot, bleep, bloop. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:
- [/r/worstof] frustrated redditors, almost entirely unprovoked, take it out on the creator of a subreddit bot
If you follow any of the above links, please respect the rules of reddit and don't vote in the other threads. (Info / Contact)
legsintheair
Your bot is bad, and you should feel bad. Seriously, this bot is maybe the worst one on Reddit. Someone should shit down your neck for creating it.
sneakpeekbot [OP]
Done
NorwegianSteam
LegendOfGinAlley69
alamaias
/u/alamaias please, though if there is ever a specific command to call the bot i can see it being handy sometimes. So feel free to let me know if it does :)
sneakpeekbot [OP]
Done
You actually can summon me directly, for example: "/u/sneakpeekbot /r/memes, /r/botsrights " (up to 3 subs). I just haven't made it public yet so you're now in the know ;)
Ranga_Unchained
AnotherDrinker
Optout. This should be opt-in.
mechakreidler
Lol nobody would even know about it that way?
tobogan2
fuck you and your shitty bot
hardonchairs
This is a nice student project but it is annoying as hell, please make it summonable rather than automatic.
photoshopbot_01
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u/Vertibim also r/4pr1l
You show up EVERYWHERE! At first it was fine and thought it was convenient, but then i have to see this bot in EVERY SINGLE THREAD.
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can I un-block later? Don't necessarily mind the bot but I was trying to help somebody with Reddit earlier and they may have gotten confused by sneakpeekbot's reply, don't want that to happen again if I need to reply to them more haha
also don't get why people are being so fucking vitirolic here, this bot is actually useful unlike the stupid non-mobile linker bot (and the owner of that one doesn't even have the decency/competence to make a thread like this, instead proposing that people "stop using mobile links" to cut down on replies)
tinkyXIII
This should be opt-in, not spamming every goddamn user until they opt-out.
ParaplegicCuttlefish
Please blacklist u/sneakpeekbot
AstroPhysician
blacklist /u/AstroPhysician
And please stop making bots, I can't post on reddit without 3 different bots replying to me
TempusCavus
obey-the-fist
This bot is cancer
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sneakpeekbot [OP]
Only take subreddit blacklist requests from moderators of that subreddit
niggers are niggers and you're a nigger too
sneakpeekbot [OP] 23 points · Jan 2017
Done
EuphemiaPhoenix 9 points · Jan 2017
I don't think it's working
sneakpeekbot [OP] 13 points · Jan 2017
I will now ignore my own subreddit, thanks
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