So let's explain how it would work, feel free to improve this draft or tell me if it's not feasible. I'm not well tuned zith editing rights
First the user has to create a post with sections and send it to the bot. Then the bot @[email protected] publish it to the community mentionned by the user.
I'm an user. I explore lemmy.tdl and see a post Meat market is decreasing in Europe related to the megathread Farm for the section Market and i want to add it to the megathread Farm
So i can call this bot like this :
[email protected] add to Farm section Market (maybe shorter with symbole ?)
Then the bot will do 2 things :
Edit the megathread Farm and add * (timestamp of the URL) [Meat market is decreasing in Europe](URL) to the section Market
leave a comment with the link to the megathread farm
Timestamp of the url, the date of the newpapers if we can retrieve it.
To remove a link from a section, go to the link you want to remove, and write this :
I prefer the whitelist. You chose people you trust and have fun
upvote/downvote : no. they are not public as only the admin and people outside lemmy can see them. I can't trust it. Posted a video about sign language, got negative vote without any reason. So I ended up manipulating vote for everyone and couterbalance them.
I could make this sort of bot easily using pythorhead, but I don't quite have the time atm. Still if you know a bit of python, this sounds very doable.
Hey, pretty cool idea. So, if I understood your specifics correctly the bot's functionalities would essentially be twofold:
starting new megathreads
adding links to existing megathreads
About 1. I think you should seriously consider the idea of restricting the allowed megathread starters in a way. An easy solution would be only allowing community mods to start megathreads (and maybe instance admins? not really necessary, though, imo). So in your example only a moderator of [email protected] could start new megathreads. I think this would be preferable instead of an array of trusted users, because it would reduce the amount of configuration necessary.
would be comparatively easier on a permission side and unless any incidents happen it could probably be beneficial to allow everyone to partecipate in the megathread. However removing stuff from the megathread should definitely be restricted to mods and/or admins. Giving everyone the possibility to remove sources they disagree with in a public discussion sounds dangerous.
The biggest challenge would be designing a clear interface for users. What you have proposed:
sounds a bit too long winded and possibly hard to remember.
Furthermore, you might want to assign some sort of unique identifier to your megathreads, as just giving them a title (like "Farm") will likely generate conflicts in the future. The "add link to megathread" action should somehow uniquely identify a megathread, both within a certain community as well as instance wide. Asking the user to provide a link to the megathread they wish to contribute to would be an easy and unambiguous solution, but it might be a bit too difficult on the UX side (bear in mind, users are LAZY).
All in all the idea sounds great, you (we?) should just discuss the specifics in detail before any code is written.