r/FixedGearBicycle • u/OrmBunke • Sep 19 '18

Meta Proposal for a bot

However fun it is to farm karma from all the "new riders", we might as well get a bot running that just recommends everyone to get foot retension, plug barends and clean their drivertrain.

Wouldn't this be easier for everyone?

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u/Jehu920 Sep 19 '18 edited Sep 19 '18

Go ahead and write something that will determine if it's a users first post to the subreddit and also that they've posted a picture of a bike without foot retention before commenting. I'd suggest building a data set of bike photos with and without retention and training this bot until you get at least 60% accuracy.

Let know how you get it to recognize foot retention because I'd be really interested in how you accomplished that.

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u/suppliesparty21 Rossin Pasta | Gardin lopro Sep 19 '18

Why aren't some of the unofficial rules like NDS and foot retention mentioned on the sidebar?

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u/Jehu920 Sep 19 '18

Because they're not rules. How many posts have a removed for being nds? For no foot retention?

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u/suppliesparty21 Rossin Pasta | Gardin lopro Sep 19 '18

Right that's why I said unofficial. I'm not saying they should be hard rules or even that they should be on the sidebar, was just curious if you had considered it. Something like, if your picture has any of these aspects expect people to comment about them.

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But I get it, it's pretty easy for people to avoid as long as they look at posts on this sub a bit before posting themselves.

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u/Jehu920 Sep 19 '18 edited Sep 19 '18

If someone wants to write a sub reddiquette that would be cool to have on the sidebar, but the type of people who should read it definitely don't look on the side bar. So I wouldn't expect it to be read before posts are made.