@RemindMe_OfThis in 8 hours.
@k00b or @kr, are bots compatible with stacker.news like that classic twitter one above?
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Not currently. We could eventually add them, but we'd have to figure out how to fund/charge bots ... and allowing any programatic access needs to be done carefully.
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Maybe you could add a sort of bounty for responding, so if I wanted a "remind me" style bot to remind me, I could set a bounty which it could collect by responding to me. This would help finance development of useful bots. It would also be good for Q&A's, to disincentivize spam.
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That's a neat idea!
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That's a cool idea. To tag on, I think the bots should be able compete with each other -- not just on time, but also on quality. I.e. multiple bots could respond, but only the best bot gets the bounty
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lol yes, automate everything and take away the human element. humans bad, machines good. 0011010101001101010101
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One could write a bot that reads html via beautiful soup or something.
This might work as long as SN is still small. And the finances could make it real fun. But the reading could be heavy traffic when SN grows...
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