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Hello world,

Today we are starting an April Fools charity event called: Lemmy Silver! accessible to all users of Lemmy with an account made before today (also non-world users!).

From now on, every 24 hours, you can comment !lemmysilver under any post in participating communities (see: this post for more information), or send a PM to this bot account with (!lemmysilver [username]) to award the poster points. We will keep a score depending on the amount of votes you send and receive. More details can be found in this post.

In this post we will keep a live leaderboard. At the end of April the users with the highest score will get these prizes:

  1. €150 to a charity of choice
  2. €100 to a charity of choice
  3. €75 to a charity of choice
  4. €50 to a charity of choice
  5. €25 to a charity of choice

If you are a moderator and want to add your community to the whitelist, type !whitelistsilver in the comments or in a PM to the bot account to whitelist all the communities you moderate, or send a PM to me (Thekingoflorda).

The prize fund is made up by personal donations from members of the admin team and the moderation team, no money from the Fedihosting Foundation is used for this event. If you want to contribute to the prize fund, please send me a PM.

We also made a little survey for this event, so if you have 2 minutes, please fill it out: https://app.formbricks.com/s/cm8x96xjc022vvt01xr0z9tdp

Feel free to leave any feedback here in the comments, in [email protected] or by sending them to my PMs. The bot's PM will probably not be read. Please be honest, but respectful and keep the TOS in mind.

Thank you everyone! Hope you have fun.

PS. The bot might be a bit unstable in the beginning, so please send all your complaints my way so I can fix the inevitable bugs.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I will donate to the Rainbow Railroad to help LGBTQ+ people get to safety

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Does the capitalization of lemmysilver matter? Can it be Lemmysilver, LemmySilver, lemmysilver, LeMmYsIlVeR?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Thank you for voting. You can vote again in 24 hours. leaderboard

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

It should not matter

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities: gunners nyu hongkong hollowknight

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities: sqlserver

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities: the_heinlein_society

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you for voting. You can vote again in 24 hours. leaderboard

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities:

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

thank you lol, just for clarity, I am not eligible for the price, so if I win the person after me can choose the charity.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

!whitelistsilver

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I dont really understand the whole lemmysilver thing but thanks for getting a fun community charity raffle set up. You didn't need to get a prize pool together so going the extra mile out of pocket to do that for a community event is such a cool move.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

If I can answer any question(s) to make it more clear, feel free to ask (:

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (6 children)

If I win I will donate to the Red Cross for Myanmar Earthquake victims. Let's do it lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Thank you for voting. You can vote again in 24 hours. leaderboard

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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Thank you for voting. You can vote again in 24 hours. leaderboard

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

This is great fun thanks for doing it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities:

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities: Outfit7Limited

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for putting this together!

It looks like a lot of people are attempting to use it on comments instead of a direct reply to the post, while expecting it to go to the commenter.

Can we get a confirmation from the bot of who the vote is going to?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Uh sure, yea will add that in the next update. But in the case you described it would go to the commenter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Oh, awesome, I thought we had to pm it to the bot to give it to a commenter. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

!whitelistsliver

Edit: typo. will enter command again

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Quick question, it seems to me you do not have any communities you moderate. Did you use that command because my explanation above is not clear? I’m looking to improve the explanation (:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have the communities but the bot doesnt detect those, maybe because those communities arent being fetched to the bot's instance, or because I'm in a different platform?

I do create and moderate [email protected], [email protected] (officialy recognized by mods of r/Outfit7Limited), [email protected] (r/TalkingHank, my own stillborn (closed while WIP) subr*ddit), and [email protected] (r/rejectedMCsuggestions, also my own, opened too early but closed after the API strike)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Huh, weird, those communities don’t show up for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities: dragonquest

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Wait this just posted? Sorry for my negativity, I shouldn't have said anything at all. I'll leave feedback in the survey posted.

Thanks for trying to get community involvement!

Next year you might want to announce the event earlier into the day, it feels like a lot of the world has already had their April 1st gone by, especially the social media aspect.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oh no problem. It's a bit of a trial to see how people like events like this.

And about the timing thingy, the problem was that I work during the day and want to keep taps on the first few hours of the bot so it doesn't go rogue.

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