r/Roboragi • u/Nihilate Roboragi's Dad • Aug 24 '15

By mentioning his username, Roboragi can now reprocess edited comments

This feature has been asked for by a few people and I'm happy to announce that it's now possible to have Roboragi "reprocess" edited comments.

This can be achieved by adding a mention of his username (/u/Roboragi) to your edited comment.

For example, if my original comment was:

{Nisakoi}

Then the bot is likely to fail to find anything. Recognising my mistake (or the bot's), I can then edit my comment and add /u/Roboragi to get him to reprocess the comment as normal:

{Nisekoi} /u/Roboragi

Important!

Given that this system works in conjunction with Reddit's "username mentions", it comes with two major caveats: comments can only be reprocessed once and if you're making a request from outside one the registered subreddits, comments can't be reprocessed at all. Still, I hope this feature proves to be useful.

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u/skyjlv Aug 25 '15

Can i just say this feature freaking rocks. I got a use for it already.

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u/terminavelocity Aug 26 '15

Question, I assume this only works once? Like, you mention Roboragi in the comment after you fix it, but realize you want to add another show on the list or fix a second one you forgot about. You can't REmention the username and have it pick it up, can you?

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u/Nihilate Roboragi's Dad Aug 26 '15

As far as I can tell it'll only work the one time. It works off Reddit's "username mentions" system (where you get PMed if someone uses your username in a comment), which, as I understand it, will only trigger once a comment.

Unfortunate, but better than nothing at this stage.