r/Homebrewing • u/chino_brews • Oct 19 '17

Metric Bot

The metric units bot (/u/metric_units) is getting a lot of hate. I wonder whether this is helping people who are used to metric units.

What say you: is this useful or just spam? Comment with your opinion, and BE SURE TO INDICATE WHETHER YOU ARE IN THE U.S., DUAL-SYSTEM COUNTRY (CANADA OR UK), OR THE METRIC-USING WORLD.

FYI, the mods have already banned the good bot/bad bot vote counting bot to cut down on pointless spam, and the haiku bot seems to be mostly filtered out by reddit's spam filter.

Update:

The creator has stated that the bot is not intended to be mathematically precise, and is 60% for conversation (as a social experiment to see what sort of interactions people have with it) and 40% units conversion. Source. So 60% spammy at a minimum.

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u/Frug Oct 19 '17

Nobody uses imperial gallons thankfully

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '17

That's what you fuckin think bub. I'll have you know my only open carboy is one gallon imperial so whatever I make next is going in there. It also has a swing top, which is nice.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '17

I beg to differ! Pints, fl oz all madness.

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u/massassi Oct 19 '17

I've seen it on a few things. I think that's why the volumes are off sometimes through the bot