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So basically I have been interested in Reddit bots for a while bc I thought they could do lots of useful things. Today I wanted to start making my own bot. My coding skills are relatively good, I'm familiar with a few languages, but not that much with Python, which I used to make it. That's why I started with a simple bot, which I wanted to evolve later: one which would go through all the new posts in a certain subreddit and comment different things, such as 'amazing meme', 'great meme', 'you should be proud of your meme' etc. The idea was to test out what I've done and, maybe, make people feel a little better (especially bc in the past there were similar bots which were, at least in my opinion, quite appreciated).
Everything might seem alright upon here. I finished the bot in the morning and I started it. At first, it looked like people were appreciating the positive feedback. However, my timing couldn't be worse. As you might know, sadly Juan Joya Borja died today (as I later found out myself), so there were a lot of posts about him. In addition, there is also another sad meme about suicidal korean teens which end up like this because of their school schedule among other things. My beloved bot found all these things wholesome/funny, so he commented accordingly. After a few hours I checked what is it doing and oh boy, I was in for a 'treat'. Even though some figured out that account was a bot, I still got lots of downvotes and pissed off a lot of people who thought I was just insensible/idiot/you name it. I felt really ashamed and I deleted the bot account. I guess I'll search for some better projects in the future.
TL;DR I made a reddit bot which replied with positive comments on new posts in a subreddit; it ended up commenting on rather serious posts, which was considered inappropriate so I pissed off a lot of people
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