Badge suggestion - A badge for making a bot

[Parker2991]

why not a badge for making a bot

[IanAtReplit]

Sounds like we need a whole different conversation for this. What do you think the minimum requirements for getting a badge for making a bot would be @Parker2991 ?

[QwertyQwerty54]

Umm… Owning a community bot?

[MattDESTROYER]

Would this be a good idea, because it would incentivise creating bots on Replit, in which case lots of people would try (many successfully), despite the staff having previously said they don’t really support bots. Honestly, I think there should be some sort of proper API users are actually allowed to use and interact with (like including mutations).

Edit: it seems I made the incorrect assumption that this post was about bots on Replit that reply to comments and can interact in other ways.

[Parker2991]

hmm idk tbh just to make one ig under any lauguange

[IanAtReplit]

Thanks. But that would mean that anyone who attempts to make one of any quality would get the badge. Could we set some baseline criteria for functionality or usefulness? Not every bot is a useful one and many don’t work at all and I don’t think users should be awarded badges in this case.

[dragonhunter1]

I think OP is not talking about an ask or replit bot. They are talking about a Minecraft bot.

[IanAtReplit]

Thanks. I understand.

What I mean is I don’t mind what kind of bot it is, but I would say that there should be a baseline to achieve the badge and not just “I made a bot” because it might not work, or be inappropriate, or something else.

[Parker2991]

well im out of ideas

[GiggaPoggers]

I would think some basic criteria would be at least 2 commands with the bot.

[Parker2991]

my bot has 47 commands XD

[GiggaPoggers]

damn, i dont even know how to make a replit bot. I might attempt to make one in python someday

[Parker2991]

mine runs on node.js

[GiggaPoggers]

I hate node so much, idk why its just hard for me to work with

[Parker2991]

ehh i got the hang of the code in what 3 to 5 months is when I started to know what I was doing

[GiggaPoggers]

My problem might be ive only worked on it for just abt 1 month

[Parker2991]

oh ok in my opinion i say node.js is a good coding language

[CoderElijah]

@MattDESTROYER

it would incentivise creating bots on Replit

The thought of getting banned scares me away from making a bot. There are so many rules and I don’t think any of them are official.

[sonicx180]

No need. There are replit checkmarks ig

[IanAtReplit]

Hi,

The Terms of Service are here if you want to take a look. I’ve included my interpretations which hopefully can help.

14. Launch any automated system, including without limitation, “robots”, “spiders”, or “offline readers” that access the Service in a manner that sends more request messages or any other content to the Replit servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional online web browser.

So keep an eye on the amount of time the bot is pinging and make sure it isn’t checking every 0.00000000001 seconds (for example).

Notwithstanding the foregoing, Replit may grant the operators of public search engines permission to use spiders to copy materials from the site for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent necessary for creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials.

The bot shouldn’t keep records / archives of information.

Replit reserves the right to revoke these exceptions either generically or in specific cases.

There can be exceptions, but only if discussions happen in advance to ensure you aren’t putting any of Replit’s services at risk.

You agree not to collect or harvest any personally identifiable information, including account names, from the Service, nor to use the communication systems provided by the Services for any commercial solicitation purposes.

The bot should not collect / find personal information about users, or spam them with messages with or leading to advertising / selling products.

You agree not to solicit, for commercial purposes, any users of the Service with respect to their content.

Your bot should not identify users as potential developers / employees and send messages to them relating to this.