Hey all,

Baseball season is almost upon us! For those of you who were around last year, you’ll recall that @cerevant@fanaticus.social and I ported over the redball baseball bot to Lemmy and subsequently created a bot for each team.

While that was a lot of fun to work on, not many people interacted in the gameday threads. This year, I am considering scaling back the game bots to an on-demand basis (although you’re certainly welcome to create your own!). For those communities that want a baseball bot for your team, let me know in this post and I’ll set it up. If you want to run your own and want some help with that, I can help you with that too. Let me know your thoughts! I am open to suggestions.

If you found your home team’s community is without a mod, let me know and I’ll turn over the keys. I’m really excited for this year’s season and am hoping we get a lot more participation and posting from all you lurkers!

Big shout out to @runwaylights@lemmy.world for keeping us going through the offseason! Offseason MVP right there!

  • shnizmuffinEnglish
    12•9 months ago

    Not all interactions are comments and replies.

    Seeing the daily post with the details of the game is a great resource, just like it was on Reddit. Just because users don’t have anything to say doesn’t mean the posts are useless.

    If you’re looking to reduce the amount of bot traffic:

    • Don’t need the “off day” post.
    • Don’t really need the post game thread. (Can bots instead change the title of a post, uh, post post?)
    • Don’t need play by play comments.
    • shoeEnglish
      4•9 months ago

      I agree with everything you said, including the bot traffic prioritization

    • @headie_sageOPMAEnglish
      3•9 months ago

      Just because users don’t have anything to say doesn’t mean the posts are useless.

      Thank you for saying that! I feel the same way but it was a long season of defending a whole army of bots that seemingly weren’t being used by anyone.

      Reducing bot traffic in order to prevent user-created posts from being drowned out is really my goal here so I think by default I’ll leave the pre and post game threads turned off (unless someone really wants them). I also didn’t really find the play-by-play comments useful for my purposes so I’ll leave those off as well.

      Can bots instead change the title of a post, uh, post post?

      They certainly could if it was coded that way but I’d have to extend the bot a bit more to do that (and add another config option probably).