I've an inclination to write a bot - Human-in-the-loop bot. There have always...
I've an inclination to write a bot
- Human-in-the-loop bot. There have always been humans in the loop for bots, the question is how much in the loop. I'll manually approve *every* post and response.
- It should be a transparent bot. It should say up front, "I'm a bot and I think you should upgrade to a heat pump."
- It shouldn't create denovo content, it should always be starting with something it read in an RSS feed or the like. W/o this, it is likely to be a boring bot.
Self-replies
- It should post links to cite sources, but should always do a follow up post with a link to how to evaluate the trustworthiness of the source, e.g. is it from a know partisan paper, or what have you.
Anyhow, this is higher standards than what we hold human shitposters to.