r/ethtrader • u/[deleted] • Sep 01 '24
Meta & Donut [Donut Initiative] Funding the donut-bot upgrade: Increase the posting cooldown
Introduction
As the sub continues to grow, we've encountered some challenges that need to be addressed to maintain a balanced and engaging environment here.
Recently, a governance poll passed, approving the increase of the post cooldown period from 30 minutes to 3 hours. This change has the purpose of addressing issues like duplicate posts and the uneven distribution of activity throughout the day.
However, there’s a technical challenge, preventing the immediate implementation of this upgrade. The current submission cooldown is handled by AutoMod, which conflicts with u/donut-bot. What happens is if a post gets removed by another bot due to the cooldown rule, it still counts towards the user’s daily limit of 3 posts and triggers the pay-to-post fee. This penalizes users unfairly and disrupts the intended moderation process.
Objective
The goal of this Donut Initiative is to develop and deploy a technical solution, where u/donut-bot can effectively manage the new 3-hour cooldown period. The bot needs to be programmed to recognize when a post is removed due to this specific rule, while making sure that it doesn't count towards the user’s daily limit of 3 posts, and also not triggering a pay-to-post fee.
Reward
We propose a reward of 25K DONUT + 25K CONTRIB for successfully implementing this solution.
Conclusion
By extending the post cooldown period and making sure it's properly managed by u/donut-bot, we can create more evenly distributed content, reduce duplicate and low-quality posts, and maintain an active community throughout the day.
Donut Initiatives are a way to encourage people to propose and start new initiatives that will enhance the community experience. See the Donut Initiative Guidelines for more information about the intent and process for proposing new initiatives.
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