zonination/oc-bot

Functional enigine for /u/OC-Bot

Functional enigine for /u/OC-Bot

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Functions
   2.1 Primary Operation
   2.2 Secondary Operations

Introduction

/u/OC-Bot was a joint project from my subreddit /r/dataisbeautiful. After over a year of development and maintenance from myself and /u/iNeverQuiteWas, we made the joint decision to open-source it to the community for improvements, inspiration, maintenance, and portability.

Meet OC-Bot

• Gender: Female
• Workplace: zonination's laptop
• Conceived: 2017-03-06
• Birthday: 2017-03-13
• Relationship: Currently deceased.
• Address: 127.0.0.1

Functions

Primary Operation

IF:

• Post has the text [OC] in the title AND
• The post is approved by a mod AND
• The post has NOT been logged before

THEN:

• Make a sticky linking to the first submitter's comment on the post AND
• Add a point to the user's flair OR ignore flair if it's a reserved flair AND
• Log the post it made a sticky on

Secondary operations

• The bot replies to comments made on the sticky with a randomly-generated haiku.
• The bot replies to username mentions with a randomly-generated haiku.
• The bot replies to direct messages (PM) that she cannot help, but should contact the mods of /r/dataisbeautiful to help.
• The bot forwards direct messages (PM) to the mods of /r/dataisbeautiful