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!

  • @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).