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Hello world,

Today we are starting an April Fools charity event called: Lemmy Silver! accessible to all users of Lemmy with an account made before today (also non-world users!).

From now on, every 24 hours, you can comment !lemmysilver under any post in participating communities (see: this post for more information), or send a PM to this bot account with (!lemmysilver [username]). We will keep a score depending on the amount of votes you send and receive. More details can be found in this post.

In this post we will keep a live leaderboard. At the end of April the users with the highest score will get these prizes:

  1. €150 to a charity of choice
  2. €100 to a charity of choice
  3. €75 to a charity of choice
  4. €50 to a charity of choice
  5. €25 to a charity of choice

If you are a moderator and want to add your community to the whitelist, type !whitelistsilver in the comments or in a PM to the bot account to whitelist all the communities you moderate, or send a PM to me (Thekingoflorda).

The prize fund is made up by personal donations from members of the admin team and the moderation team, no money from the Fedihosting Foundation is used for this event. If you want to contribute to the prize fund, please send me a PM.

We also made a little survey for this event, so if you have 2 minutes, please fill it out: https://app.formbricks.com/s/cm8x96xjc022vvt01xr0z9tdp

Feel free to leave any feedback here in the comments, in [email protected] or by sending them to my PMs. The bot's PM will probably not be read. Please be honest, but respectful and keep the TOS in mind.

Thank you everyone! Hope you have fun.

PS. The bot might be a bit unstable in the beginning, so please send all your complaints my way so I can fix the inevitable bugs.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

This is great fun thanks for doing it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities: hopeposting

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for putting this together!

It looks like a lot of people are attempting to use it on comments instead of a direct reply to the post, while expecting it to go to the commenter.

Can we get a confirmation from the bot of who the vote is going to?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Uh sure, yea will add that in the next update. But in the case you described it would go to the commenter.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, awesome, I thought we had to pm it to the bot to give it to a commenter. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities: videos obscuremedia redlettermedia connectasong goodnewseveryone musicproduction adultswim redlettermedia nowhereelsetoshare technology dunkey vintageads soundfontcovers theonion quickskits mashups obscureinstruments archivalfootage

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

!whitelistsilver

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

!whitelistsilver

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

!whitelistsilver

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Cool experiment! Do you expect silver awards only for posts newer than April 1, or can I go back and award favorite past content as well? Obviously the idea is to stimulate new content, but it would be nice to have intent spelled out clearly, and with the bot checking. I like the idea either way, and also that you’re limiting to only accounts older than today.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

You are free to award it to whatever you want (:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

!whitelistsilver

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

!whitelistsilver

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities: sysadmin publicfreakout secops l3automod hackingnews

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities: cattorneys_at_paw beebutts awwnverts mildlyprivates

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

If I win I will donate to the Red Cross for Myanmar Earthquake victims. Let's do it lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for voting. You can vote again in 24 hours. leaderboard

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for voting. You can vote again in 24 hours. leaderboard

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for voting. You can vote again in 24 hours. leaderboard

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities: nootropics

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

!whitelistsilver

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities: i2p

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities: superbowl urbanfantasy dresdenfiles new_hampshire

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities: mentalhealth fallout languagelearning privacy latin fedibridge tankiejerk comm_revival

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities: starcitizen

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah, I think I misunderstood - the lemmy silver is for one to award to a different user, and not for one to claim? I was under the impression that it was the latter.

Neat idea!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, correct. It’s mean to encourage people to create awesome content on here (:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Nice!

Could you please word it slightly different to provide clarity? Perhaps:

From now on, you can comment !lemmysilver under any post to award the poster one lemmy silver. You can do this once every 24 hours in posts that are in participating communities (see: this post for more information). Alternatively, you can send a PM to LemmySilverBot with !lemmysilver username.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I changed it to make it more clear, this better?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for voting. You can vote again in 24 hours. leaderboard

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

!lemmySilver

Just testing does it still count if the comment contains other text after the command. It's not immediately clear from the instructions how that works.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

LOL nice try, we know it's not a real event.

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