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Proposal for a community bot (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by HariSeldon_official@lemm.ee to c/boardgames@feddit.de
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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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[–] donio@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] dpunked@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

I agree with you, but a lot of traffic comes in from mobile and its bit more cumbersome to add the links properly

[–] myfavouritename@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.