Should Newsbot Die

[Phillyman]

I implemented the newsbot to keep topics comming into the forum ........if you think its just annoying......go ahead and vote

[Gnash]

I think it helps but it's just too much posting by the bot and not by the members.

[MBJ]

I would say that about 1/3 of the newsbot posts are interesting. But I wouldn't do away with it as it helps to stimulate discussion. Perhaps newsbot posts with no replies should be deleted after 2 weeks to keep it from cluttering the current events thread.

[Alien7]

I don't mind them, but I do wonder if it's possible to limit to how many newbot posts come in per day?

[Phillyman]

I would say that about 1/3 of the newsbot posts are interesting. But I wouldn't do away with it as it helps to stimulate discussion. Perhaps newsbot posts with no replies should be deleted after 2 weeks to keep it from cluttering the current events thread.

I am searching for this right now ........I was thinking 7 days

I don't mind them, but I do wonder if it's possible to limit to how many newbot posts come in per day?

Yes i can have him import 50 topics a day if i want .......right now he is set to 3

He was created for new users to be able to get 25 posts to play in the arcade ......incase there was slow weeks on the forum

[zttfan]

Of course not, all ribbing aside, newsbots do stay crunchy in milk!

And that's a proven fact!

"Not propaganda, goodfacts, as opposed to realfacts. Facts the government has endorsed."

[Gnash]

Over at Havocs Ryder has it so it only goes into the New Posts list if 2 people reply to it.

[sav2880]

It serves more of a purpose then not, and yeah, it's hard to get to 25 posts when discussions stagnate, so this helps that out.

Hey, it's singlehandedly gotten me from about 5 to 12, and that's with good responsive posts too.

How does newsbot determine which topics to import? Random?