What do you want your Forum bots to do?

Started by Legend, May 14, 2015, 04:23 AM

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Legend

By far the coolest feature of forum 2.0 is a personal bot for every user. These aren't gimmicks like The Machine, but powerful workers capable of near everything.

Right now I have them focused on modifying posts. Once you make a new reply, your bot rushes in and starts fixing things on your behalf. One example is that it fleshes out bare/lazy links. If you post "omg http://ramdom.com/news/magic.php?action=new-game-announced-from-Rockstar" then your bot can fix that to "omg [url=http://ramdom.com/news/magic.php?action=new-game-announced-from-Rockstar]Rockstar announces brand new game[/url]." Your bot might even select a few choice quotes from the link and post them as well.

Another example(yet to code this one so it might be scrapped) is your bot automatically converting tweets in image form to actual embedded tweets.

Or you could accidentally post a private image that we can't see. Your bot could go in and try to find an open image for you, or else alert you that the image link is bad.


I'm wondering how else you'd like to see them help out?

Also would you like the ability to customize your bot? Give them a name, avatar, etc? You will of course have options regarding the bots operations themselves, including disabling it completely if your a kook or something.

Xevross


Dr. Pezus

Change my posts to very Englishmanish postd

Legend

Quote from: Xevross on May 14, 2015, 08:22 AM
Grammar checks on posts?

Doesn't your browser already do that?

Quote from: Pezus on May 14, 2015, 08:53 AM
Change my posts to very Englishmanish postd

Lo! What o jolly good idear that is.

Xevross

Quote from: Legend on May 14, 2015, 09:05 AM
Doesn't your browser already do that?

Lo! What o jolly good idear that is.
No it just does spelling checks.
Quote from: Pezus on May 14, 2015, 08:53 AM
Change my posts to very Englishmanish postd
Wow that would be amazing haha

BananaKing


the-pi-guy

Quote from: Xevross on May 14, 2015, 08:22 AM
Grammar checks on posts?
I think the most that could be done would be very basic grammar checking, mostly spell check with corrections.  It's an AI problem.

Look at Google translate, even though it has a lot more work put into it, it still isn't great.  With all the arbitrary inconsistent grammar rules,it's difficult to make a system that works in most cases, let alone all. 

Xevross

Quote from: the-Pi-guy on May 14, 2015, 01:39 PM
I think the most that could be done would be very basic grammar checking, mostly spell check with corrections.  It's an AI problem.

Look at Google translate, even though it has a lot more work put into it, it still isn't great.  With all the arbitrary inconsistent grammar rules,it's difficult to make a system that works in most cases, let alone all.
Ugh, then I'll have to continue putting up with bad grammar :(  ;D

kitler53

all i want is too be able to disable them.   this sounds horrible. 
         

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Legend

Quote from: kitler53 on May 15, 2015, 12:51 AM
all i want is too be able to disable them.   this sounds horrible. 

I knew you would ;)

7H3

keep an locked thread archive of smites and applauds with links to the original post.

roll dice
"It's hip to be square." - Eurogamer<br />"Shut up its art!" -Legend

BasilZero

Sounds like Microsoft wanting to see me fap through Kinect (l0l)

Legend

Quote from: 7H3 on May 15, 2015, 02:32 AM
keep an locked thread archive of smites and applauds with links to the original post.

roll dice

Applauds show up right on the post itself now. No need for a central category.

Genious!

7H3

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a roll dice/ rand bot commands could be a fun feature... could use to say declare a victor between 2 users arguements

ie: @botAI judge @pezus  @ethomaz

(post) botAI: I hereby declare ethomaz the victor in the discussion between Pezus and ethomaz because (rand reason based on rand result)
"It's hip to be square." - Eurogamer<br />"Shut up its art!" -Legend

Legend

I've got it set up so that the bots will make thumbnails of overly large images. Then if a user wishes it, these thumbnails are shown and the full image is not loaded until the thumbnail is clicked.

In quoted posts the thumbnail would show for all users, until being clicked.


Save some bandwith for mobile users, and help out for when pezus decides to use a 4k avatar ;)

Quote from: 7H3 on May 15, 2015, 03:05 PM
a roll dice/ rand bot commands could be a fun feature... could use to say declare a victor between 2 users arguements

ie: @botAI judge @pezus  @ethomaz

(post) botAI: I hereby declare ethomaz the victor in the discussion between Pezus and ethomaz because (rand reason based on rand result)

Yeah that could be cool.





Also I've decided to integrate these bots with The Machine. Having a single and central intelligence will feel better than a hundred scatterbrains.