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A comment on Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?.

Re:Ask HN: Do you have personal bots? by passivepinetree on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @10:23PM (#21394110)
I only run a small one for kicks: it updates my github page with a dummy commit each day. They got rid of streaks, but I still leave it running out of some misplaced sense of sentimentality.

A few years ago, a friend and I built one that would scan twitter for tweets in the vein of “like to win $ITEM” or “RT to win $ITEM.” Our bot would automatically perform the requested action, and then text me (via twilio) for each DM and mention we got (so I could manually respond and claim the prize). We didn’t disguise it well, and were shut down after about 4 weeks, but it was fun while it lasted! :)

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have personal bots? by ethanpil on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @12:12AM (#21394635)
What about your prize bot violated Twitter policy?
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Re:Ask HN: Do you have personal bots? by TheGrumpyBrit on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @04:41AM (#21395640)
Most likely rate limits
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Re:Ask HN: Do you have personal bots? by nyuszika7h on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @06:19PM (#21403486)
Automated liking/retweeting is not allowed.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you have personal bots? by dplgk on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @10:19PM (#21405095)
So why expose it via the API?
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Re:Ask HN: Do you have personal bots? by detaro on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:11PM (#21415973)
So apps can do it in reaction to user input.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you have personal bots? by yunruse on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @09:05AM (#21397238)
If there’s one thing that always annoyed me about the Github commit display it’s that… well, it displays commits, and not a much better (if not perfect) metric such as LoC. Depending on the feature or volatility of the branch my own commits can vary wildly in how granular they are.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you have personal bots? by passivepinetree on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @12:05PM (#21399187)
Definitely. It's not indicative of any sort of quality, which naturally makes it fun to game! I randomized the amount of commits on each day so my graph has varying shades of color!
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Re:Ask HN: Do you have personal bots? by Ralith on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:03PM (#21415938)
Missed opportunity to render pixel art in the calendar display.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you have personal bots? by londons_explore on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @04:29AM (#21395580)
I'm pretty sure you can just backdate commits for the same effect...
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Re:Ask HN: Do you have personal bots? by nchelluri on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @10:34PM (#21394167)
cool. very cool.

(i know this is a "low content" post for hackernews, but this is a new thread with no posts, so ymmv.)

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