As we see more and more bots on Lemmy World every day, it’s about time we publish a set of rules for bots and bot-owners.
So here goes:
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Bots shall not be used for any kind of advertising.
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The bot accounts must be clearly marked as a bot. Both in the bio and by marking the account as a bot.
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The owner of the bot and contact details must be mentioned in the bot’s bio.
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Bots are only allowed to post in communities they have the explicit permission from the community’s owners to do so.
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Bots from other instances that post in Lemmy World communities must follow the same rules.
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Bots shall not just be posting Reddit content.
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Bots shall not be “spammy”, as in multiple posts per minute.
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Breaking any of these rules will result in a ban for the Bot and, if required, its owner.
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Commands must use the bots mention as prefix, and not a text prefix like !help
These rules will be updated when needed.
Would love to know when such a thing is set up — been needing some bots for some things like match threads for a while on our c/gunners community
I’ll be making a post about it before the end of the month, although access to the service will be limited to moderators, instance admins, and curated users for a probably a year.
can’t imagine people other than mods needing it ngl, so that’s totally fine by me haha — this is where i’d love to have a !remindme bot tho :p
Yes, but it’d be nice that if a user has an idea for a bot they can easily build it, test it, and share it (with community approvals). Also, there is a mastodon based remindme bot. It’s not specifically coded for Lemmy, but it’s compatible. Just mention
@remindme@mstdn.socialI am in the process of making on for R Reddevils. It’s using flash pre to get the data
Yeah, we’ve seen your github! Taking a bit longer on our end, though.