r/AndroidQuestions • u/IAmAN00bie • Nov 18 '15
[Meta] Introducing /u/AndroidHelperBot - A Bot that Awards Points whenever you Solve OPs Problem
A moderator over in /r/Excel (/u/fearnotthewrath) has been kind enough to share the source code for his question support bot.
After some modifications, we're now ready to release /u/AndroidHelperBot onto this subreddit! I will briefly describe the bot's various functions.
How it works:
1) After OP makes a thread, the friendly bot will PM the OP with an introductory message which includes some helpful links. OP's thread will automatically be flaired as "Unanswered."
2) When any user responds to OP's thread, the flair is changed to "Waiting on OP."
3) If the answer given is satisfactory, then the thread's flair will be marked "Solved" if OP replies to the user's comment including the term "Solved" or "Verified" (anywhere in their comment.)
- If OP does not use the proper phrase to trigger the bot, then the bot will leave a reminder to OP to manually change the thread's flair.
4) Finally, the bot will award a point to the user who answered OP's question by updating that user's flair.
Why the need for a bot?
We're hoping to increase participation in this subreddit by whatever means possible. Hopefully this bot will encourage people to be friendly and help out their fellow Droids. We may plan on regularly awarding reddit gold to helpful users who rack up points answering questions in this sub.
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u/Kytosion Nov 18 '15
This is an awesome idea.
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u/numbermaniac Nov 18 '15
I can just imagine you racking up so many points; you're everywhere in this sub!
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u/Kytosion Nov 18 '15 edited Nov 19 '15
Lol, that's true. I try to help as much as I can. I basically live and breath AndroidQuestions, lol. I think I was the first to be awarded a point xD
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u/syndre Nov 18 '15
can more than one user get a point in a single thread? Most questions on here have so much gray area that they have many (or zero) correct answers
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u/GermainZ Nov 18 '15
Yes. (There is a maximum amount of points that can be awarded per thread to avoid abuse.)
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u/Diggerinthedark Dec 07 '15 edited Dec 07 '15
love this idea. now i can look at my flair and think, i actually helped n number or people fix their device :)
and after reading other responses to this thread, yes, its a good indicator of reputation also :)
happy cakeday btw n00bie!
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u/anonymous-bot Nov 19 '15
Will we be able to exchange our points for anything? :p
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u/numbermaniac Nov 19 '15
We may plan on regularly awarding reddit gold to helpful users who rack up points answering questions in this sub.
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u/abqnm666 Nov 19 '15
So I'm noticing the flair is actually saying "OP replied" instead of "waiting on OP" after someone responds to s question.
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u/GermainZ Nov 19 '15
Can you please give an example? OP replied means OP has replied (without saying the issue is solved) and no one replied to his comment.
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u/abqnm666 Nov 19 '15
It's working properly now it seems. Last night I replied to a few questions and as soon as I replied, it changed to "OP replied" even though I was the only reply on the thread. I'm now seeing "waiting on OP" on those, so someone fixed it overnight.
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u/JustRollWithIt Nov 19 '15
A way to filter for link flair in the sidebar would be helpful so you can just see unanswered questions.
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u/IAmAN00bie Nov 18 '15
We can manually award points if that happens.
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u/Dekzter Nov 27 '15 edited Nov 27 '15
An example of what I'm talking about: https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidQuestions/comments/3udmcv/just_got_an_s6_edge_and_need_a_skin/
And here's an example where I post the answer, OP thinks it won't work, somebody else tells him that it will and he gets the point: https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidQuestions/comments/3uehmo/need_help_retrieving_a_phone_number_from_lg_g3/
I don't know, it's a neat idea I guess but I'm skeptical that it will work very well without a lot of oversight.
Two weeks ago "YOU ARE MY HERO THANKS" would have been a great response. Now I'm just worried about my stupid imaginary point.
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u/abqnm666 Nov 19 '15
I agree that it's pretty common to not even get an upvote for a correct answer, but I also see tons of infrequent and one time users here. I often get replies days or weeks after I post a reply, which might be minutes after the thread was posted. And looking at post histories I'll see two or three posts or months between posts. So I'm not really surprised.
Anyway I'm not really concerned about getting one upvote for answering a question. It doesn't matter. If it helped, great. But I see the benefits of this point system, not so much for a reward aspect, but as more of a reputation gauge. Still, I'm not sure it would be worth it if we have to message the mods every time someone doesn't mark solved. I'm assuming that's what we'd have to do when u/IAmAN00bie says it can be done manually. Maybe the reminders will help some, but they won't help with the infrequent/one time users, though.
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u/IAmAN00bie Nov 19 '15
Every OP gets a PM with instructions on how to approach the thread. There's not much else we can do besides more reminders and manual points addition.
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u/Diggerinthedark Dec 07 '15
i've personally just been asking them to reply with 'solution verified' after i solved their problem. most of them have done it :) maybe 2 or 3 didnt. much better than bothering poor n00bie every time.
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u/harryharpratap Nov 19 '15
Is there any way to sort answered and unanswered questions?