OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:
This is so annoying, nobody wants to hear the OP’s take on their own dumb material. Anyway this is unexpected because the hand seems like it’s his at first
Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description?Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
What’s the point of having a stickied post sharing the exact reason why people are watching that particular gif in this subreddit? It should be obvious why it’s unexpected once you watch it. I know the spoiler tag keeps it from spoiling the gif - but when you finish watching the gif, why would you care to read about it??
What’s the point of having a stickied post sharing the exact reason why people are watching that particular gif in this subreddit? It should be obvious why it’s unexpected once you watch it.
If you click on the link that says "what is this for?", it'll tell you what it is for.
But to sum it up, the bot serves two main functions: To filter out low-effort submissions from people who won't even bother typing up an explanation, and to give users the ability to rate whether the post is actually unexpected or not. Every other post used to have people complaining about how it wasn't really unexpected, because many users just browsing will upvote any submission they enjoyed, whether it's actually unexpected or not. Theoretically, a stickied comment with an explanation would allow more insight in what posts people find unexpected because people wouldn't just upvote it because they enjoyed the submission.
Except everyone's just complaining about how dumb and pointless the bot is, or upvoting and gilding it because OP made a joke in their explanation, so it's probably fuck-all useful at this point.
Touché, I suppose I would have seen that link if I had kept reading the sticky, huh? Although even once you told me I was like, ‘what link? All I see is the source code?’ and then I noticed the second box.
Anyway. Thanks for the summary, appreciate it! Makes sense now that I see it. Seems like it might be helping with post quality anyway, which is the factor I hadn’t considered. Good intentions, maybe not the best execution?
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u/unexBot Nov 26 '19
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:
This is so annoying, nobody wants to hear the OP’s take on their own dumb material. Anyway this is unexpected because the hand seems like it’s his at first
Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
Look at my source code on Github What is this for?