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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 !LemmySilver@lemmy.world 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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[–] poplargrove@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nice idea, thanks to the admins for coming up with this and putting their money to fund it.

I guess we're likely to see a fair number of comments trying to award silver.

Can we have a "!repeatAward" or similar command? Reply to a "!lemmySilver" comment with it and you can award for the same comment or post. IMO that would reduce clutter because you can then just collapse the first award command and get on with reading actual comments. Maybe even delete all "!lemmySilver" commands after the first one, and DM people letting them know they should use the "!repeatAward" command.

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[–] RedPostItNote@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] LemmySilverBot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities:

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

One quick bit of pedantry, I am pretty sure you mean "prize" not "price" throughout the entire post.

[–] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Yep, lol. Thank you!

[–] hankskyjames777@thebrainbin.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] LemmySilverBot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

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

[–] NataliaTheDrowned2@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] LemmySilverBot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities:

[–] ultrahamster64@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] LemmySilverBot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

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

[–] hankskyjames777@thebrainbin.org 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

!whitelistsliver

Edit: typo. will enter command again

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[–] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] LemmySilverBot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

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

[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] sunaurus@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is cool!

Any rules for alts? Can people "claim" alt accounts to sum up their votes?

[–] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

well we don't allow accounts that are younger then the 1st of april, and cheating with alts that where made before that time is ofcourse not allowed. We can never catch everyone, but if we notice it, it would at least disqualify you from the event.

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[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] LemmySilverBot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities: mentalhealth fallout languagelearning privacy latin fedibridge tankiejerk comm_revival

[–] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] LemmySilverBot@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

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

[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

!lemmysilver

Lot better than that train wreck they have going on over at /r/field... well done, my liege.

~~On a side note, your gator faithful await your call to dethrone DeSantis. When will the beacons of Orlando be lit, my lord?~~

Edit: Please disregard - that was meant for the King of Florida.

[–] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Yes, that message is better for the king of florida B, not me, the king of florida A.

[–] dragonfly@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] LemmySilverBot@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities: superbowl urbanfantasy dresdenfiles new_hampshire

[–] ABasilPlant@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah, I think I misunderstood - the lemmy silver is for one to award to a different user, and not for one to claim? I was under the impression that it was the latter.

Neat idea!

[–] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, correct. It’s mean to encourage people to create awesome content on here (:

[–] ABasilPlant@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Nice!

Could you please word it slightly different to provide clarity? Perhaps:

From now on, you can comment !lemmysilver under any post to award the poster one lemmy silver. You can do this once every 24 hours in posts that are in participating communities (see: this post for more information). Alternatively, you can send a PM to LemmySilverBot with !lemmysilver username.

[–] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I changed it to make it more clear, this better?

[–] LemmySilverBot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

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

[–] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

!lemmySilver

Just testing does it still count if the comment contains other text after the command. It's not immediately clear from the instructions how that works.

[–] LemmySilverBot@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

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

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

LOL nice try, we know it's not a real event.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] LemmySilverBot@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities: videos obscuremedia redlettermedia connectasong goodnewseveryone musicproduction adultswim redlettermedia nowhereelsetoshare technology dunkey vintageads soundfontcovers theonion quickskits mashups obscureinstruments archivalfootage

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