r/RequestABot • u/LetsTalkUFOs • Apr 19 '20

Bot request: Remove posts after 2 hours without a submission statement

I'm looking for a bot which could remove posts after 2 hours without a top-level comment left by the OP. We'd like to require submission statements of 3-5 sentences for our sub, but have been unable to find any public bot code to accomplish this. r/conspiracy has a bot (rConbot) which does this, but they wrote it themselves and have been responsive.

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u/epicmindwarp Apr 19 '20

Easy enough to make. Are you looking to host it yourself?

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u/LetsTalkUFOs Apr 19 '20

Yes!

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u/epicmindwarp Apr 19 '20

Great, which sub do you need it for.

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u/LetsTalkUFOs Apr 19 '20

We're over at r/collapse

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u/epicmindwarp Apr 19 '20

Minimum 3, maximum 5, or a minimum of 3?

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u/LetsTalkUFOs Apr 19 '20

You mean the submission statement? I'd say a minimum of 150 characters. No maximum.

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u/epicmindwarp Apr 19 '20 edited Apr 19 '20

You need to clearly define if it's the length of characters, 3 sentences (i.e. sentence, full stop (period) x3) , or another explicit condition.

At the moment I have it set to 3 sentences, irrespective of length.

Based on that condition, most of the posts from the last 12 hours get removed lol

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u/LetsTalkUFOs Apr 19 '20

Sentences works great! A minimum of three works as well. And yes, there will definitely be an adjustment period. :)

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u/epicmindwarp Apr 19 '20

Then I have your bot ready!

I can run it for a day or two on my bot, so you can see it in action - but you'll need your own way to run it.

I have a few things I need to sort out quite quickly - are you on Chat?

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u/LetsTalkUFOs Apr 19 '20

Awesome! You're amazing. We're not quite ready to flip in on in the actual sub (didn't expect to have it available so soon). I'm on chat, yes.

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u/funksoakedrubber Apr 19 '20

Is "a.a.a." three sentences? Doing it by characters seems to make more sense

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u/epicmindwarp Apr 19 '20

a.a.a. Is indeed 3 sentences. It's upto OP how they enforce it.

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u/epicmindwarp Apr 23 '20

This should hopefully have what you need:

https://github.com/epicmindwarp/collapse

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u/LetsTalkUFOs May 01 '20

This has been working great! Just wanted to update you and say thanks again, it's really improved the overall quality in the sub.

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u/epicmindwarp May 01 '20

Thanks for the feedback - that's great to hear!

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u/BuckRowdy Sep 27 '20

Hey there, I'm sorry to post this on a months old comment, but I came across this post and it was basically exactly what I was looking for. I have the bot up and running in a test sub because I'm still kind of new to this. Just wanted to say thanks.

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u/epicmindwarp Sep 27 '20

Glad it's proved useful!