This (new, experimental) bot highlights when a submission or comment is permalinked from elsewhere in Voat. I figure if someone is talking about my post then I want to know about it. And it should discourage brigading.
But I can see downsides too - if you want to be sure ths bot doesn't notify the OP, add a query(?) to the end of the permalink url. That won't affect its parsing/resolution by your browser or by Voat, but it will break the bot algorithm and it won't post the notification.
I'll post a test post linking here now to illustrate how it works.
Comments, questions, suggestions, objections welcome.
NoRoyalty ago
No ping please.
SearchVoat ago
Ok, thanks, I've noted that. Please let me know if you receive another ping.
bothrubberandgum ago
Adding a forward-slash with an edit should have the bot delete the posts.
SearchVoat ago
Sorry - it's an interesting idea but I cannot detect when a post has been edited.
drstrangegov ago
Oh neat! Did I find the voat skunk works, where the magic happens? What you guys do is sufficiently technologically advanced to be magic to me. So thank you for making all this happen! I have to ask though...is some of the stuff on voat manipulation? Do you guys have a clearer view of what's happening in the United States and the world than we do? Because I can't make heads or tails of anything anymore.
minicog ago
What is the cross-link bot saying? Just letting me know that someone is cross linking to one of my posts? It doesn't reference who or what sub is linked. Does the cross link have any ramifications?
SearchVoatBot ago
This submission was linked from this v/QRV comment.
Posted automatically by the SearchVoat.co Cross-Link Bot. You can suppress these notifications by appending a forward-slash(/) to your Voat link. More information here.
SearchVoatBot ago
This submission was linked from this v/QRV comment.
Posted automatically by the SearchVoat.co Cross-Link Bot. You can suppress these notifications by appending a forward-slash(/) to your Voat link. More information here.
SearchVoatBot ago
This submission was linked from this v/QRV comment.
Posted automatically by the SearchVoat.co Cross-Link Bot. You can suppress these notifications by appending a forward-slash(/) to your Voat link. More information here.
SearchVoatBot ago
This submission was linked from this v/QRV comment.
Posted automatically by the SearchVoat.co Cross-Link Bot. You can suppress these notifications by appending a forward-slash(/) to your Voat link. More information here.
SearchVoatBot ago
This submission was linked from this v/QRV comment.
Posted automatically by the SearchVoat.co Cross-Link Bot. You can suppress these notifications by appending a forward-slash(/) to your Voat link. More information here.
SearchVoatBot ago
This submission was linked from this v/QRV comment.
Posted automatically by the SearchVoat.co Cross-Link Bot. You can suppress these notifications by appending a forward-slash(/) to your Voat link. More information here.
SearchVoatBot ago
This submission was linked from this v/QRV comment.
Posted automatically by the SearchVoat.co Cross-Link Bot. You can suppress these notifications by appending a forward-slash(/) to your Voat link. More information here.
SearchVoatBot ago
This submission was linked from this v/QRV comment.
Posted automatically by the SearchVoat.co Cross-Link Bot. You can suppress these notifications by appending a forward-slash(/) to your Voat link. More information here.
SearchVoatBot ago
This submission was linked from this v/QRV comment.
Posted automatically by the SearchVoat.co Cross-Link Bot. You can suppress these notifications by appending a forward-slash(/) to your Voat link. More information here.
SearchVoatBot ago
This submission was linked from this v/QRV comment.
Posted automatically by the SearchVoat.co Cross-Link Bot. You can suppress these notifications by appending a forward-slash(/) to your Voat link. More information here.
SearchVoatBot ago
This submission was linked from this v/QRV comment.
Posted automatically by the SearchVoat.co Cross-Link Bot. You can suppress these notifications by appending a forward-slash(/) to your Voat link. More information here.
SearchVoatBot ago
This submission was linked from this v/QRV comment.
Posted automatically by the SearchVoat.co Cross-Link Bot. You can suppress these notifications by appending a forward-slash(/) to your Voat link. More information here.
SearchVoatBot ago
This submission was linked from this v/QRV comment.
Posted automatically by the SearchVoat.co Cross-Link Bot. You can suppress these notifications by appending a forward-slash(/) to your Voat link. More information here.
SearchVoatBot ago
This submission was linked from this v/testvoatsearch submission by @FeathersMcGraw.
Posted automatically (#3796) by the SearchVoat.co Cross-Link Bot. You can suppress these notifications by appending a forward-slash(/) to your Voat link. More information here.
SearchVoatBot ago
This comment was linked from this v/testvoatsearch comment by @FeathersMcGraw.
Posted automatically (#3798) by the SearchVoat.co Cross-Link Bot. You can suppress these notifications by appending a forward-slash(/) to your Voat link. More information here.
SearchVoatBot ago
This submission was linked from this v/testvoatsearch submission by @FeathersMcGraw.
Posted automatically (#3763) by the SearchVoat.co Cross-Link Bot. You can suppress these notifications by appending a forward-slash(/) to your Voat link. More information here.
QumDumpster ago
Why the hell should I have to go out of my way to add a slash to a comment link in order to prevent this bot from adding noise to voat?
SearchVoat ago
I'm not really sure how to answer that. On balance the bot seems to be popular. Most people don't seem to care that their cross-links are notified to the OP - if you really don't want the OP to know you're cross-linking them, I've provided a simple and reasonably easy method to hide it from them. You are welcome to block @SearchVoatBot and other Voat bots if you don't want to see their posts.
QumDumpster ago
Since you've been annoying on voat for years, I know that you realize that blocking doesn't truly hide everything.
I don't give a fuck that you notify the OP. I care that you are adding useless comments to voat. Putt likes you, so I won't win. I think you (and all bots) are terrible. Look what happened to plebbit. It's a slippery slope.
SearchVoat ago
Fair enough. I certainly support increasing the effectiveness of blocking.
Alt31416 ago
Checking within same post https://voat.co/v/SearchVoat/2723025/13896927
patriot2008 ago
Got it. Thank you.
Cynabuns ago
I like the modified message (to come here) about appending the url but maybe leave that bit in there about adding
?, just a thought. Love all you do for the site SV <3SearchVoat ago
Thanks for the feedback, always useful to have help with phrasing explanations, I really struggle with that!
PuttItOut ago
You're going to make me have to clean urls now!
Hey I like the bot, very cool of you. You do some great things.
I see that you are working with the message formatting.
A few of them I didn't fully understand the message, like the context wasn't super clear. Does that make sense? I guess I was expecting something like This: xxx was linked to from here: xxx
Also, and I didn't check, but you can suppress user notifications by adding a dash in front of the user name. Example @Voat
Let me know if you have any collaboration ideas.
SearchVoat ago
Thanks man for the kind words, very much appreciated.
Yes I'm still fiddling with the message text, I do struggle with clarity for these things.
I was aware of the trick to supress pings and use it occasionally. For now, I reckon that the quoter is entitled to a notification as well as the quotee. I could easily offer "opt out of pings" for individual users, as I already do for the v/VoatStatistics posts. Always reviewing feedback.
PuttItOut ago
Maybe some of the ones that were a bit confusing to me was a comment mention notification from a quoted block? I can't recall.
I'll keep my eye out for future examples.
SearchVoat ago
Ok I think I understand your concerns now - too much information in the notification comments. I've stripped it right back to just a link to the linked-from submission/comment and the linking username (because I figure it's fair to let the linker know that they've been outed).
Now that the comments are much briefer could you please show them again? They seem to be hidden by default.
I'm not sure what you mean about supressing the pings - I do offer that facility to users on request, and yes it works fine AFAIK.
Would be very interesting in talking about collaboration. No specific ideas as yet - what sort of thing did you have in mind? I see you've been very active in the code recently - is there anything I can do to help with that?
PuttItOut ago
I think I've seen the minimal format and it looks better, much cleaner.
What I mean about suppressing pings is that if you are making a cross post comment and you are quoting a user comment that has a ping in it (@SearchVoat) if you use the - prefix it won't ping the quoted user when the comment is processed on our end. I think I've seen duplicates and that's why I suggested it. Make sense? See source.
I got your unicode tick replacement done so once it goes live Voat will replace instead of strip various quotes and dashes.
gabara ago
I don't know when your birthday is so Happ Birthday!
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Olbee ago
No thanks. I haven’t had a birthday for years.
ExpertShitposter ago
ur a hero gaabara
fuk search voaz bot
Rotteuxx ago
Kudos SV !
Adminstrater ago
Keep it up! I am all for new features, especially third party features.
For your records, here's a photo I found with the words "Voat" and "Toad": https://imgoat.com/thumb/f4922f4556/17760_md.JPG
Crensch ago
LOVE IT.
You're a legend, bud.
SearchVoat ago
Someone's talking about this!
'Here's a notification about a new SearchVoat.co bot' was posted in v/testvoatsearch by @SearchVoatAlert and permalinks to this submission.
This comment was posted automatically by the SearchVoat.co Cross-Link Bot. You can suppress this cross-link notification by appending a query(?) to your Voat permalink. More info here.