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RE: 👉 READ THIS BEFORE YOU POST 👈
We tried something like this before, with Share n Burn, but I think the rules here allow for more variety and creativity. I'm glad to give it another run.
FWIW, I believe that @mod-bot can be configured to automatically mute any post in a community that doesn't have a null beneficiary setting for the minimum threshold value. It can also be configured to automatically pin posts that have null beneficiaries above some threshold.
I think the ability for an automatic mute is great (the rules are easy, though). But - please, please - no pinned posts!
I wasn’t aware of Share n Burn and it definitely looks like this is aligns with that - perhaps more extreme!
Is mod-bot your creation? I was thinking about writing one along the same lines, which would also reply to the post to say why it’s been muted but if you've done this already, sign me up!
@cmp2020 wrote the code for mod-bot a couple years ago, before he got overwhelmed by his double major at college. I've been using it to pin posts with null beneficiaries and post promotions in the Popular STEM community ever since then (see [Popular STEM|Announcement] Expanding our barebones visibility service - 5 pinned slots now available!).
Reading through the introductory post again, though, it doesn't look like auto-muting was enabled yet. It was on the to-do list, but maybe he didn't get it implemented. I'll have to check with him on that. Maybe tomorrow.
I get the point from @chriddi about pinning, but modbot just randomly cycles the posts through a configurable number of pinned slots (which can be as low as 1), so it doesn't get stale or induce a lot of unnecessary scrolling. Maybe it's not really relevant for this community, anyway, but as a general concept I still think it's useful.
That’s the next thing I’ve started working on the interface. It’s proving difficult but the idea that there’s a fixed, defined, portion of the page (at the top) for pinned posts so whether you’ve got 1 or 100, scrolling’s minimised. Much like the communities on my other interface.
The muting would definitely be useful. I don’t always think to check the beneficiaries and it’s not possible to view them until a vote’s been submitted (as far as I’m aware - not on the interface anyway).