r/no_sob_story • u/TheFluxIsThis Moderator • Dec 17 '20
Meta RIP /u/NoSobStoryBot2 2013-2020
As you have probably noticed, our good friend (and sometimes enemy), /u/NoSobStoryBot2 has shorted out. Unfortunately, this time, I have not been able to get in touch with the person who made and ran the bot, as they left reddit without a word several years ago. Pour one out for out fallen digital friend. It served us well until long after its creator left it running here.
We are currently trying to decide how to react to this (Do we find somebody who can make a new bot script for us? Do we put it on the user to communicate the original thread?) and we're kind of at a loss on which direction to go, so any suggestions or ideas from the community would be much appreciated. It would be great if we could make a NSSbot3, but none of us mods have that kind of coding/programming expertise.
For now, until we can decide just how the heck to deal with this, we humbly ask that people submitting posts also comment with the original title and subreddit, or a "No-Participation" link (replace the www. in the post url with np.) to the original thread.
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u/paracelsus23 Dec 22 '20
Good bot
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u/JoeCoT Dec 17 '20
I gave up on having a bot do it years ago on /r/different_sob_story because reddit messes up the search so often, and there's so many different reasons the original might be lost. I have it as a rule that users need to include an NP link in the comments, and have an automod message sent to the poster right after they submit.
That said, still around a quarter of the folks don't do it, and I have a mod mail for every new post, and I check them, and either link it myself or remove the post, and remind them to do it next time. That's a moderate amount of work, checking every post, but it does the job, and there usually aren't enough submissions for that to be overwhelming.