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Re:Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency by voodooism on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:53AM (#27115393)
This bot doesn't have any relations with official Telegram. This topic is kind of an advertisement that misleads people.
Re:Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency by alert0 on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:55AM (#27115408)
This is not an advertisement. I would never consider someone talking about a Discord bot to be talking about an official bot released from Discord. It is incredibly common for users to write bots on these platforms.
Re:Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency by yosito on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @02:45AM (#27114947)
This is a very interesting concept. The bot implementation seems a little too noisy to catch on in most of my group chats, but I love the concept and I hope moderation ideas like this get tighter integration with chat apps in the future.
Re:Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency by Animats on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:05AM (#27115084)
Not sure. It's one of those "the solution to everything is a market" fixes. See the "The “Why your anti-spam idea won’t work” checklist.[1]

[1] https://trog.qgl.org/20081217/the-why-your-anti-spam-idea-wo...

Re:Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency by demidko on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:16AM (#27115175)
All @timecobot notifications disappear after a few seconds and do not clog up the general chat
Re:Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency by yosito on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @04:10AM (#27115500)
They still make my phone vibrate, unless I mute the chat.
Re:Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency by reformat on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @04:14AM (#27115533)
No, ”bots api” contains param "disableNotification=true"
Re:Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency by Hitton on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:33AM (#27115307)
Obviously mobbing and multiple accounts break this, but it's still a fun little idea. If it's invite-only group which would eliminate sock-puppeting it could be interesting experiment.
Re:Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency by reformat on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:40AM (#27115329)
Yes, it's can be invite-only group. Also, in @timecobot the time is carried over between chats. In other words, time is an attribute of the Telegram user, not the chat user.
Re:Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency by Y_Y on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:40AM (#27115332)
Why do all the people in the examples hate RMS?
Re:Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency by reformat on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:46AM (#27115369)
This is just an example of how time-based currency can help resolve disputes in chat.
Re:Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency by NiceWayToDoIT on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @04:07AM (#27115475)
I do not see how will this help, it will create opinionated groups that are close to different views. So, each time someone expresses his view, the entire group can act against that person, which is exactly what happens today on the twitter, if you express unpopular view about let say "gender" topic, there will be entire cohort of hate tweets... It seems like many other ideas, this was well intended, but devs have not considered many negative type of misuse and exploits...
Re:Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency by reformat on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @04:11AM (#27115508)
I prefer to give people as much freedom as possible to manage their community. It would be interesting to know what will come of this. No censorship of moderators like Twitter
Re:Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency by prox on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:03AM (#27115067)
Wouldn’t this just lead to endless timecoin spam if there is a heated timecoin debate / argument?
Re:Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency by reformat on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:24AM (#27115244)
A little practice over the past few days in connected chats (~300 people) shows that a certain order develops by itself
Re:Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency by prox on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @07:02AM (#27116550)
Interesting, love to see some experiences / reports how this works in practice.
Re:Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency by tromp on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @02:58AM (#27115034)
Among cryptocurrencies, there is one based on time: Grin's emission is one Grin per second, forever. So the supply always equals the time it existed (almost 2.5 years now).
Re:Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency by reformat on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:19AM (#27115208)
In my project, the timing is more practical and related to chat management.
Re:Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency by alephnan on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:25AM (#27115252)
Did you read the article? This has nothing to do with cryptocurrency.
Re:Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency by longlongstr on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:19AM (#27115211)
Great idea, I think.
Re:Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency by jazu on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:28AM (#27115267)
This is a bot, not something provided by telegram itself.
Re:Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency by alephnan on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:45AM (#27115363)
Yeah, OP seems to be self promoting their project with a misleading association to Telegram official
Re:Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency by reformat on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:51AM (#27115383)
Yes, this is a bot, but the time-based currency works for all Telegram users, regardless of the chat. This is not self-promotion: Telegram bots api is open for everyone.
Re:Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency by Dah00n on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @04:08AM (#27115478)
If it is written by the author of the bot it is per definition advertising. Might be interesting but the title is still misleading.