A few years ago I created a Telegram channel which pulls around 10 top voted news every day from r/Vancouver and post it there: https://t.me/vancitynews It's a handy way to get local news, try it out
Now I'm thinking: Is it a good idea to automatically post those news here to spark a discussions and make this community more alive? Is it even allowed to automatically post anything? What do you think?
I'm pretty sure that the new Reddit policy will not affect my channel which calls reddit.com just a handful times per day
Personally I think, it should be generally ok to rip content of Reddit, but it should happen manually rather than via a bot.
We have the chance to create something new and distinct here in its vibe. A bot might hinder that.
I agree that "Not everything that makes it to the top of a subreddit is quality content.". However, I pull only the news from predefined set of news sources (I filter by url link). So it's about local Vancouver news rather than popular posts by random folks. Try it out on my Telegram channel above to get the feeling what it's like.
As for the second point, I'm I a programmer. Content generation / moderation isn't my cup of tea. I'm lazy and hate manual tasks (you see I'm a good engineer:)). I wanted to invent/implement a smart solution to improve Vancouver community here. I'm a fun of r/vancouver, but I do realize that decentralization is the move to the right direction
A steady stream of real Vancouver news which are popular on Reddit will attract me personally to this community more and I was thinking maybe somebody else as well?
i agree with what they brought up, as we probably don't want c/vancouver to be a carbon copy of r/vancouver, however i also think that fetching some valuable pieces of news (perhaps some of u/cyclinginvancouver's posts, for instance) automaticatically here might make sense, at least initially?
I'm going to reach out to u/cyclinginvancouver and see if they want to come over here as well. u/xlxoo would be a good addition too.
If they aren't interested in migrating here or cross-posting here with their blessing I think a bot that cross-posts their Reddit submissions once they reach a certain threshold of upvotes on Reddit here could be very beneficial while making sure it's not "spammy"
Agreed. A bot is not a good solution, we need people to come here for content instead of reddit, and a reposting bot is not sending the proper message IMHO.