Thanks for understan

Vanilla Arch.

Linux was optimized to be used as a desktop OS?

The needed drivers should be provided by the kernel, so no.

Normal distros

• Pop!_OS
• Mint
• Fedora
• Ubuntu

Gaming distros

• Garuda
• Bazzite
• Nobara

…or any other distro really. I’ve been gaming on vanilla arch linux. It’s pretty stable and low maintenance once you’re done setting it up and don’t tinker much and have backups with something like Timeshift in place. archinstall script makes it really easy to install vanilla arch linux with everything essential configured.

KDE Plasma.

GNOME kind of looks nice but is too strict on customization.

Arch linux official repos seem to have prebuilt binaries ready to installiert: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/ardour/

It’s an interesting read to see how Kernel developers argue and think.

You sound like some mad scientist experimenting with kernel devs.

It actually feels like in a few years, the year of the linux desktop will become real. Not even joking.

What exactly am I to do when mods use my bot maliciously? I just try to program features into the bot that might be used by the moderators. Everything is optional, if the features are used maliciously, it’s not my fault but the moderators’. What fault does the creator of knives have when they are being used to murder people instead of cutting vegetables?

I do appreciate your comment though, some misc tasks don’t necessarily need to exist such as welcome messages and auto comments on posts. Actually I’ll remove welcome messages, they are a waste of API calls. Maybe auto comment on posts as well but scheduled posts are (most likely) staying. It is a moderation bot after all. I’ll consider your compliant. Thanks.

Just block it and you’ll no longer see any posts or comments of it.

None of the mod bots seem to be written in Rust, which I’ll be using. So nope.

The bot won’t have any admin permissions.

Your idea of a “bot” is yet just manual labor for mods with “advanced” features.

Banning members on their username.

I am merely trying to give community mods options. This feature and the other features are optional. Direct your complaints to the community owners if they use some regex that matches usernames that you think shouldn’t be banned.

Locking down an entire community because of a small group of people spamming.

The bot just locks it down to stop the spam, otherwise everyone’s feed will just be filled with spam. I haven’t seen such a spam yet, but that does not mean there won’t be any in the future. Just trying to be prepared for it.

Deleting posts because an account isn’t old enough?

Again, I am just giving the mods options. If they enable the feature and use it, direct your complaints to them.

Why not throw in the system to have to approve posts before they get published? Really make the community welcoming.

That is possible with post locking and with a dashboard. I’ll look into it.

It was said in another comment above that this tool is easily abused by “overzealous mods”, but I believe the real problem are overzealous programmers.

Again, I’m only giving them options.

Every tool can be used both in good and bad purposes. Why is it that it is the fault of the tool or its creator?

I’ll consider it. Thanks for your comment.

This is a moderation bot.

Alright. Sounds fair. Instead of taking dangerous actions, I’ll make it create a report instead. Though I’ll probably keep the feature to punish members by their usernames via regex or word blacklist.

I’ll think about it. But I’ll most likely add a option to permanently ban a user after X temp bans instead. The thing with sending alerts to mods is that the API calls increases as the moderator count increases. I’d like to decrease the amount of API calls made since there certainly is a rate limit on the instance I’ll be using for the bot.

Exactly.