RE: 👉 READ THIS BEFORE YOU POST 👈
@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).