Self Bots (They're not always malicious!)

slimeenergy

• 2020年05月21日 19:27

Please consider allowing self-bots, or some form of them. They can be a very fun way to interact with discord. Perhaps you could have a custom type of API key for when people want to use self-bots rather than using a discord client, because you could then throttle certain actions and perhaps automatically moderate some. In my case, I want to create a command that only I can run, which will replace the original message with an emoticon. \,,/(^_^)\,,/
Not allowing self bots seems like such a missed opportunity to allow programmers of all abilities to have some fun and truly enjoy discord in their own way. Discord is an amazing application but not allowing for this sort of API support goes against my love for the program. The only reason that I even occasionally use twitter is because of the API. For example: https://twitter.com/spelunky2out
This would make discord feel like a lot more of a welcoming place to programmers and open up so many fun possibilities. Please consider this. YouTube removed annotations, because they didn't have mobile support, instead of adding mobile support. This feels very much like the same situation, but with simple automatic throttling and moderation. If a self-bot API token (discussed previously) sends two-hundred messages in less than a second, then simply flag it and disable the self-bot API token temporarily. Please don't disallow all kinds of self-bots; not all are malicious. :(

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  SarahK

  • 2020年05月21日 22:25

  Can you explain what you mean by "self-bot"?

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  advaith

  • 2020年05月22日 16:54

  Self-bots are bots that run on your own user account and only respond to your own messages (basically a user's personal bot that works in all servers), they used to be very common but are no longer allowed

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  MrKafr

  • 2020年05月25日 08:26

  This cam be abused too much. People dont know if you are bot or not. As i programmer I would too, be very glad to see this, but considering all risks, i dont think that his is gonna happen.

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  slimeenergy

  • 2020年05月25日 13:21

  If they were to roll out a custom type of API key for self bots, discord could add an indicator for self bots.

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  Voltis

  • 2020年05月30日 16:28

  There is already an API for discord bots.

   

  There is no interet in 2 API for 1 service.
  
  If discord allow selfbots, they will have limitation, and selfbots will be normal discord bots.

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  StaticNoise

  • 2020年09月28日 04:19

  They could go through an api like normal discord bots, but only allow it to work on servers where the user has a "ALLOW_SELFBOT" flag set to true

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  Marka

  • 2021年04月23日 23:10

  I’d like to see this

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  flarn2006

  • 2021年07月16日 21:24

  Yeah, I don't see any reason to ban self bots at all really. Things like spamming are against the rules anyway, so this ban literally only impacts people who would use self-bots for harmless purposes.

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