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RoboSanta the pimp

Regular visitors of the 2nd monitor chat room may be familiar with @RoboSanta, a friendly bot, pimping posts that are hopefully upvote-worthy.

Currently RoboSanta posts one Naruto answer per day (accepted non-selfie answer with zero score on a non-closed non-deleted question), randomly selected from a SEDE query. Pimping these is likely to attract upvotes, with few odd exceptions (typically some pre-2014 posts).

I'm thinking of adding a few more topics:

  • Ripe zombies: open questions with one or more non-deleted answers with zero score, and no answers having greater than zero score. Pimping these is likely to attract upvotes and reduce zombies.

  • Code-only answers. Posting such answers is likely to attract downvotes and flags, and reduce crap.

  • Bad Naruto: selfie accepted answers with zero or negative score, when there are other answers with positive score. Posting such answers is likely to attract downvotes and flags, and reduce crap.

In terms of frequency and timing, I'm thinking of one post per day per topic, and space them 2 hours apart.

Do you think these additional posts will be a good thing? Or some of these but not all of these? Do you have any thoughts on the timing of these posts? (Currently RoboSanta posts a Naruto at 21:00 UTC, a time when there's moderate activity.)

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