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.
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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.
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.