Hello Jays fans! Finishing touches are coming together for my bot rewrite, and the new bots should be taking over tomorrow if all goes to plan. With that finally out of the way I can start to focus on adding to the community. By far the biggest request is for in-game linescore updates and highlights to be added to the game day threads. So that is going to be my next main focus. Good news is I don’t think it will take anywhere near as long for those updates.
I wanted to create this thread as a centralized place for the community to suggest, well, anything relating to the community. Rules changes, bot/feature requests, banner/sidebar/icon photos, etc. I created this community way back when because personally I couldn’t support that other site anymore, but I have no desire to rule this place with an iron fist. I encourage anyone and everyone to drop their suggestions here, and if enough of us agree with the changes, then I will do my best to implement them.
So far everyone here has been extremely respectful of each other, with lots of good discussion, and there has not been a need to add any more mods to the team as of yet(I haven’t needed to perform a single mod action on any community comments/content). But as the need arises, if there are any volunteers feel free to list yourselves in this thread as well, and I can potentially draw from that pool of people first.
My thanks to all of you! We have started a great community here, I look forward to it’s continued growth!
I love you snyper, but that gif in the sidebar, and gifs in the sidebar in general, would not get my vote. I don’t think any Jays-related pic would be controversial, but loosely related gifs are a very different box of skittles
I had today’s sidebar pic picked out for yesterday, but it didn’t seem appropriate to use it a day after the loss on Sunday. Just had a little bit of fun at the expense of our pain.
Understood. I don’t know if anyone else in the community thought it was fun. I’d mind much less if you posted gifs as posts or comments. To more frankly state what I was getting at in my previous comment, loosely-related GIFs on your whimsy in the sidebar without community backing (as far as I’m aware) feels like a misuse of mod power to me
How about OPS instead of RBI in the game thread tables? Just an idea, and I don’t at all mind if RBI is retained :P. I think OPS might provide more info, especially about other teams’ lineups, since RBI is influenced by number of plate appearances and batting order. Look at Brandon Belt and Vladdy in RBI and OPS, for example, they tell very different stories (Edit: Or both RBI and OPS :) (Edit 2: OPS+ works too, but I reckon it’s not as easy to get)
First of all, wanted to thank you so much for all you’ve done so far to build and support this community! I’m looking forward to watching the community continue to grow, and all your posting is appreciated in bringing more activity here.
A comment I had is that for the past month, I as a Kbin user haven’t been able to see the game threads posted by the bot :(. I’m not sure if there was a recent change to the bot that’s causing the automated threads to not federate, or if this is a Kbin specific issue. I checked and the last game thread available on Kbin was on July 26. Meanwhile I’ve been able to view all the user-created threads since then. I’m curious if people from Lemmy servers other than Lemmy.ca are having the same issue?
So I created a test account on Kbin, and it seems the game threads are hidden for me too. I’m also not seeing any settings for the magazine subscription or in account settings to explicitly show bot content. I’m sure that has to be the problem, but I’m not sure what the solution is. I can untag the bot as a bot and pretend it’s not, but that’s not really fair to Lemmy users who use the bot toggle and do not want to see any bot content. I guess this is a question for the Lemmy.ca/Kbin admins, because I’m not sure what else would be stopping Kbin from seeing bot posts.
Edit - Created a test account on lemmy.world as well, and the game day threads show up there without any fiddling around. So it does seem to be specific to Kbin unfortunately.
I haven’t looked into this any further but I’ll try to investigate sometime and see if bot posts on Lemmy communities in general do not federate with Kbin at this time, or if this is an issue with this community specifically.
I agree with you that it’s frustrating and I’m hoping this is something we can eventually fix. It makes sense to keep them tagged as bot posts on Lemmy - better to look for more of a long term solution.
Thanks for reporting this!! This is a major issue, since it could greatly reduce our visibility to many people from other MLB instances (e.g., most MLB fans of other teams)! I tried checking from my porn alt account, but I couldn’t see any of our posts, which I presume is due to lemmy.ca defederating lemmynsfw.com. I don’t have another account to test this with
July 26th is the day the game day threads switched from being posted from my personal account to a bot account, which is marked as a bot account. I’m not sure how Kbin handles bot accounts, but I know on Lemmy, there’s a checkbox in your user settings to allow bot content to be shown. If there is a similar setting for Kbin users I would think that would be the cause.
Thanks for all your hard work. I can only post in game commentary here and there, I miss how busy the Reddit GDT were but I very much like it out here than that place. It’s nice to see a spot for us to chatter (bitch) about the team as they limp towards post season if they make it.