Comment by ThePowerOfDreams on 29/07/2019 at 17:21 UTC

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View submission: You can now summon AmputatorBot!

Can you make it reply to the AMP-link-containing comment, instead of the user who summoned it? This will cause the bot's reply to be obvious to the link submitter and thus increase awareness!

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Comment by Killed_Mufasa at 31/07/2019 at 20:43 UTC*

3 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Edit: Yes.[1]

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmputatorBot/comments/ckgfdv/an_update_on_the_way_amputatorbot_handles/

This is something that I have actually considered. Back when I made the decision not to do it like you suggested, I had a couple of reasons:

Replying to the AMP-containing comment (ACC) would require a new way for the bot to notify the user who summoned the bot (how else do you know if it worked), a couple of methods: * I can't simply reply to both the ACC and the comment summoning the bot, because either one would raise a rate-limit error. This can be avoided by adding something like a delay, which is technically possible, but hard to program properly (at least for me). * I can't send DM's because this could result in a ban. * I don't want to mention or tag the 'mentioner' in a reply to the ACC, because then the bot will always display that users name and maybe he/she didn't/doesn't want that. I could theoretically built something to ask for permission or a deletion feature tho, I will play around with this a bit.
This might be stupid reason, but I wanted to 'thank' users for summoning the bot. I figured, if the bot replied to the comment summoning the bot, the user who summoned the bot would get some karma, otherwise the reply would get buried somewhere, which doesn't seem fair(?)

Sorry for the wall of text, but I wanted to explain why I made this decision as well as I could. I would love to hear your thoughts about this (and my mostly moral objections), maybe I'm making a point out of nothing.

Feel free to take a look on GitHub[2] to make improvements yourself or to give additional feedback. Thx a lot for your feedback, it has definitely gotten me thinking again.

2: https://github.com/KilledMufasa/AmputatorBot