Daily Challenge Reddit post bot is broken (+Reddit moderator application)
GameboyGenius
Since a few days ago, the bot for posting and sticking the Daily Challenge posts is broken. The bot is run by Mahbows. I don't know their relation to Geoguessr and the community, but as far as I can tell, they haven't posted in r/geoguessr for a long time, outside of the Daily Challenge bot posts. I've taken over the role of posting those every day for the last few days, since I write daily logs anyway. I can make the posts but I can't stick them. Which leads me to the next request which I've been thinking about for a while anyway.
This would be a good time to ask to become a moderator in the subreddit. At this point I have a 2-3 year post history in r/geoguessr, and not just the Daily Challenge logs. I also have experience with moderation tasks in other communities, although not specifically on Reddit. My main pledges as moderator would be as follows:
- Try to set up and maintain a bot to handle the Daily Challenge discussion posts.
- Go down hard on the "where is this posts" that people are making.
- Overhaul the common resources sidebar links and wiki pages which are outdated in many cases.
Bo
If you're wondering why it broke, it's because Reddit had a data loss incident relating to scheduled posts: https://redd.it/1le8lkp
Jesse
I can vouch for the mod application if that's a thing people do