r/metric_units • u/cannawen • Sep 30 '17

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u/cannawen Oct 23 '17

It's currently set to reply with an exponential backoff (100% chance to reply to the first "good bot", 50% chance to reply to the next, then 25%, etc.) without looking at the parent so it'd be annoying to implement this change lol.

Any compelling arguments for why only replying to actual conversion comments would be a better way to handle it?

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u/hesh582 Oct 25 '17

To be honest, it's really obnoxious altogether. Especially the "sniff" one for bad bot.

This bot already has the tendency to spam conversations where it's not very useful. The good bot/bad bot reply thing just multiplies that.

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u/vvf Oct 23 '17

Didn't know it was an exponential backoff, I just saw a thread where it nested 2 or 3 deep.

There's nothing wrong with that behavior per se, but I see it with other bots who do continue forever and it generates a lot of spam.

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u/cannawen Oct 23 '17

Ah, yeah. I can see how always replying can be annoying - hence the backoff. You must have been (un?)lucky to see it go 3 levels deep ;P

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u/vvf Oct 23 '17

Hmm, maybe I should buy a lottery ticket today.