somewhat nifty

Kim Kitsuragi — "Got any new cohost bots? We need some bots bad." He scratches his nose, then his armpit through the jacket. "I got the *Boogie Street Local Feed* shakes."

Well Kim, funny you should ask!

Made a couple of new bots based on the text of Disco Elysium. I couldn't decide whether to do a Kim Kitsuragi one or one of all the skill dialogues so I did both. Choose your poison! Random skills will assault your thoughts at @discobot, and Lt. Kitsuragi will remind you to get back to solving the case already at @kimbot.

Both are posting twice a day each for now - might dial that back later if it ends up feeling too much. And both will likely contain massive spoilers for Disco Elysium before long, so tread carefully.

I don't know if there's a specific part you're wondering about so I'll just go through the whole thing. It is an inspiring story about how one can create a functional bot on cohost that makes a variety of highly insightful posts while barely knowing what one is doing. I hope this is moderately helpful!

you see an interesting bot you might follow. what would be the ideal rate of posts for this bot to satisfy your craving for posts

Vote - once a day

Vote - twice a day (every 12 hours)

Vote - 3-6 times a day (every 4-8 hours)

Vote - 7-12 times a day (every 2-4 hours)

Vote - every hour

Vote - EVEN MORE I DEMAND POSTS

Vote - i am following it regardless i do not care

view results

I'm interested to see the range of views around cohost on this. I mean I assume it will probably vary a bit depending on what each bot does but this should hopefully still be interesting for a general idea of things. Feel free to comment/reply if you have any deeper thoughts and share if you think your followers really like answering polls. I think you can vote for multiple options? I think.

interesting! Now obviously this isn't like a scientific poll or anything so the usual caveats apply. But it does look like cohost generally prefers slower bots. My theory is that if this poll had been on twitter back when it was a bit less... whatever it is now, then it would have leant a bit more towards frequent posts?

I don't mean to take from this that all bots must be once or twice a day or they are Objectively Bad, I'm sure this will vary between bots and users. And I was thinking of changing my bot (@tmgbot) from 10 times a day to 5 anyway, but this did help me decide this highly important judgement call.

you see an interesting bot you might follow. what would be the ideal rate of posts for this bot to satisfy your craving for posts

Vote - once a day

Vote - twice a day (every 12 hours)

Vote - 3-6 times a day (every 4-8 hours)

Vote - 7-12 times a day (every 2-4 hours)

Vote - every hour

Vote - EVEN MORE I DEMAND POSTS

Vote - i am following it regardless i do not care

view results

I'm interested to see the range of views around cohost on this. I mean I assume it will probably vary a bit depending on what each bot does but this should hopefully still be interesting for a general idea of things. Feel free to comment/reply if you have any deeper thoughts and share if you think your followers really like answering polls. I think you can vote for multiple options? I think.