NBA

(disclaimer - I'm the mod that created the bot)

First of all, I really want to thank you and everyone in the comments for taking the time and sharing your thoughts and feedback. I don't take that lightly and truly appreciate it. I myself had similar concerns and thoughts and I would love for this to be a discussion towards the best solution for this community.

When I started working on the bot, I didn't have any "uber plan", I simply saw a few game threads created manually, a few post game threads and decided it could be a cool addition to the community if we could automate these. What I realized quickly were two aspects - One was that trying out the bot can only happen, well, when games are being played and that if I don't try it out before the summer league ends, I won't be able to test it until mid Oct-ish when the league starts. The 2nd one was that Summer League is a surprisingly busy period from a schedule pov, with about 6-8 games a day, every day. That meant that the bot will create quite a lot of activity ("noise") in its first days, in a mostly (the most?) quit time of the year. Today's actually the last day of games in the next few months so either way you won't see too much from the bot for the next 2-3 months.

Taking that into account, I decided to continue working on the bot mainly so we (the mods) could get your opinions and your feedback. I wanted to see what works, and what doesn't. What folks like, and what isn't great. In a few days, we found a bunch of issues and made many tweaks to how it works. It's much better today that only a week ago. As an aside, I've gotten quite a few asks to share the code with other communities, so I think all in all it was the right decision.

Having said all that, your key point I feel stands strong - we're not as big as r/nba and shouldn't try to mimic what's working there. I suggest that when the season starts in a few months, we re-evaluate how we want the bot to work - as it is now, in a limited capacity (single daily discussion thread?), or not at all. The ultimate goal is to encourage discussions, and if we, as a community feel the bot is not driving that (even holding it back), there's absolutely no reason for it to exist.

Hope this kind if makes sense? please share you thoughts as well