It’s relatively normal for forums/subreddits to have bots that serve specific functions and post similar comments on posts when they meet certain conditions (like most subreddits I use have some collection of bots, whether it’s a bot that looks up the text of any magic card mentioned, or a bot that automatically reposts the moderation guidelines when there are too many comments, etc.)
Yeah, I’ve been planning on doing something like that. Just every custom UI element tends to introduce complexities in how it interfaces with all adjacent UI elements, but I think we’ll likely do something like that in the long run.
But the automatic pinned comments I see on Reddit have a purpose that is plausibly essential to the subreddit’s having any value to any users at all (usually to remind participants of a plausibly-essential rule that was violated constantly before the introduction of the pinned comment) whereas the annual review (and betting about it on Manifold Markets) are not plausibly essential to LW’s having any value at all (although it is a common human cognitive bias for someone who has put 100s of hours of hard work into something to end up believing it is much more important than it actually is).
The reason spam got named “spam” in the early 1990s is that it tends to be a repetition of the same text over and over (similar to how the word “spam” is repeated over and over in a particular Monty Python skit).
It’s relatively normal for forums/subreddits to have bots that serve specific functions and post similar comments on posts when they meet certain conditions (like most subreddits I use have some collection of bots, whether it’s a bot that looks up the text of any magic card mentioned, or a bot that automatically reposts the moderation guidelines when there are too many comments, etc.)
tbh I typically find those bots annoying too.
Depends on the Subreddit, but definitely agree that they can be pretty annoying.
Could the prediction market for each post be integrated more elegantly into the UI, rather than posted as a comment?
Yeah, I’ve been planning on doing something like that. Just every custom UI element tends to introduce complexities in how it interfaces with all adjacent UI elements, but I think we’ll likely do something like that in the long run.
You don’t want to make it a new element of the menu that appears when the user clicks on the 3 vertical dots in the upper right corner of a comment?
If the ReviewBot comments were collapsed without my having to manually collapse them, they would probably cease to bother me.
Yeah, it’s on my to-do list for next week to revamp these messages, I think they aren’t working as is.
But the automatic pinned comments I see on Reddit have a purpose that is plausibly essential to the subreddit’s having any value to any users at all (usually to remind participants of a plausibly-essential rule that was violated constantly before the introduction of the pinned comment) whereas the annual review (and betting about it on Manifold Markets) are not plausibly essential to LW’s having any value at all (although it is a common human cognitive bias for someone who has put 100s of hours of hard work into something to end up believing it is much more important than it actually is).
The reason spam got named “spam” in the early 1990s is that it tends to be a repetition of the same text over and over (similar to how the word “spam” is repeated over and over in a particular Monty Python skit).