How does L4sBot choose which articles to post?
This is a meta-question about the community - but seeing how many posts here are made by L4sBot, I think it's important to know how it chooses the articles to post.
I've tried to find information about it, but I couldn't find much.
@L4s@lemmy.world's operator here, and I'd be more than happy to answer any questions you have.
Like the majority of content bots on Lemmy, L4s utilizes Reddit for its posts, and I've been working on adding a few RSS feeds to branch things out more and better abide with the newer bot rules.
As for "choosing" what to post, it currently checks the most upvoted posts for selected subreddits and the up/down vote ratio, then if it matches the set threshold it will check if it has posted that link before, as long as everything lines up it will post.
Initially I had it set to once an hour on this community, things here gained a lot of traction a month later so I scaled it back to every other hour. In the near future I will be limiting it again to every 3 or 4 hours as we have continued to grow since last months decrease in posts.
As it says in the bio, the goal with L4s is to jump start communities, it won't be here forever. If you have an issue please let me know!
Also thanks for the tag @krayj@lemmy.world!
Is there source code, of a good guide to writing a bot like L4s? I mod a couple of small communities that could use a little more content
Not a problem, send me a PM, I can either point L4s at those communities or help you figure out the best way to do it!
Edit: that goes for any community mod, I want Lemmy to thrive and would love to help
Just a suggestion - it might be worth adding some kind of dupe check:
https://lemmy.world/post/3267066 https://sh.itjust.works/post/2955571
Definitely something I plan on adding, I’ve also been removing ones that I see or get reported here
Have you contacted the operator of the bot?
The L4sBot user bio lists how to get in contact with the handler @L3s@lemmy.world .
It doesn't post any when it's blocked.