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Character Request / Correction thread

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A thread to request for characters to be added into respectthread_bot's database, or to report other problems. If you don't know what respectthread_bot is, you can read this post.

CHARACTER REQUEST RULE

To request a character, simply name them and link their respect thread. It may also be helpful to list any aliases they may have.

REPORTING WRONG CHARACTERS

If you found a thread where a character has wrongfully been included, or a character who should have been included but wasn't, please link it here and explain what the issue(s) is.

Other problems include:

  • It linking the wrong respect thread

  • It mislabeling a character's version

  • Typos & misspellings

Posted Aug 9, 2019, 9:34 PM UTC · edited

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SeamooseTheMoose•

I was using a character named The Tall Man from a 1979 horror film titled Phantasm in a whowouldwin battle. The Tall Man is an undertaker. It put a respect thread for The Undertaker in the comments. Don't get me wrong, I love the Undertaker, but uhh.... That's not The Tall Man.

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respectthread_botOP•

Alright, sorry about that. I've changed it so it will only respond to "Undertaker" if "WWE" is also in the post

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SeamooseTheMoose•

cool.

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shinshikaizer•

I didn't need a respect thread posted to my thread, but the bot came anyways.

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Luke_Username•

Very well. You've been added to the blacklist and the bot won't respond to any more battles you post.

Although I'd argue knowing what a character can do helps when answering if another character can make it through their story.

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shinshikaizer•

Wouldn't it be better to set up a manual trigger system for the bot, rather than have the bot automatically search threads and post respect threads?

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Luke_Username•

What do you mean by a manual trigger system? How would it work?

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shinshikaizer•

For example, r/HPfanfiction uses

linkffn(title of the story)

to trigger their linking bot, so it doesn't just trigger when a story's title is named.

r/LightNovels uses brackets, so if somebody wanted to link something, they'd go something like

]title of the book[

to trigger the bot to link to the book.

That way, the bot isn't just going into threads and posting things willy nilly, and instead would be called by people who want to take advantage of the bot.

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