[META] What is the final verdict and current status of game/post-game thread bot runtimes?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨rezz@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨nba@lemmy.world⁩

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I feel post-game threads make more sense to be bot-automated, due to the box score labor. But perhaps game threads less so.

I feel game threads in general aren’t suited to Lemmy. I am considering hosting live game chats on Discord or Quebic (a “Signal-meets-Discord”) for Lemmy NBA. I believe there is also already a Lemmy NBA Discord if I’m not mistaken.

I think the bot should do post game threads, for the most part, but if there’s a game thread, it should be consolidated to “Game Thread for X Day” that includes all games that day.

This would probably produce the best results for activity entering the season.

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olmec@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The college football group has been doing one game thread, for watching and post game discussion. Especially in the regular season, I think this is the right call. Monday night games that aren’t on national TV are going to get low to no engagement anyway. Splitting that discussion up to 2 threads will fracture the small discussion.

For the playoffs, I could see us wanting to split it up to game and post-game threads.

I would say I don’t like the idea of doing game threads as chat only on other services. I want more in-depth discussion, and making us go to a real time chat system will make any real effort drowned out by the low quality chats of “Wow” or “That’s Traveling.”

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whoopThereItIs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I like consolidating the conversation for now, given the size of the community and volume of posts a separate game and post-game thread would create. I think it makes sense to have a single game thread that is used for both intra and post game discussion. The not can update the post body to reflect the final box score once the game is over (assuming assuring that is possible) or do so in a reply to the original post.

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- vodkasolution@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That is the right idea, I totally agree: it will encourage users and potential new users to join the discussion and bond
  
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- whoopThereItIs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  On a similar note, has the bot’s code been made public? I’d love to institute something similar for c/nyknicks just for knicks games
  
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  - rezz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    They were doing every game during latter half of summer league and it worked well. I think look for the posts here, and cross-post to your sub (for post game threads that is).
    
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burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
What about a game day thread with post-game box score comments from a bot? That could be kind of similar to the /r/NBA next day threads.

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- rezz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I personally like post-game box score being the body of their own threads as it allows for one-click cross-posting to the relevant team subs.
  
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mintiefresh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I think I agree with your thoughts here.

Also … Anybody know where this Lemmy NBA discord is?

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- rezz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I might have lied, I thought I was in it. But I can’t see it in my Discords. I will make chats later this week.
  
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