Ategon

For modding in general, baseline is checking and handling reports made by users. In addition to that though there can be looking over posts in the instance to make sure none break the rules (sometimes theres stuff like off topic posts made that arent reported)

This community specifically in addition to the above has the solution threads that would require to be posted when the new puzzle drops while AoC runs throughout december

Daily tasks:

• checking reports once a day or something similar and dealing with them
• while AoC is running at midnight ET post a solution megathread and lock it. When the two numbers for the day at https://adventofcode.com/2023/stats get above 100 unlock it (done to prevent cheating on the global leaderboard, only the first 100 scores count there). Usually takes at most 30 mins to reach 100, was much shorter in the early days of the month

Alright, if you make an account and make a post or comment in the cscareerquestions community then I can mod you

Usually like to start communities off with two mods so this post will still be open until theres a second response

Thats already handled by lemmy ui currently. The same link posts will collapse into the same one

Just isn't supported by some frontends since its a frontend specific feature (mostly the apps)

Comments merging isn't supported though but the post mirrors can be toggled between relatively easily

Yeah ill be editing it and trying to relaunch it in the new year with a different format

The issue with that and reason why AoC doesnt use that for the leaderboard is they dont have access to the code people write, just the final result

Adding that as an option would mean having something that takes into account differences in base runtimes of code for different languages (e.g. scripting languages taking longer) so that its feasible to code it in anything, and having the ability to execute many different kinds of code which can be a pain to set up (and would mean youre then running arbitrary code unless you sandbox it)

I used that as the way to rank people in !challenges@programming.dev when I was running that and its been on hiatus for awhile due to the effort needed to run it since I havent had time due to building up things in the instance such as !pangora@programming.dev

It could work if self reported but then its easy to cheat

Small warning, the change to change how lemmy as a whole calculates active users just got pushed so instances may mess up the stats as they upgrade to 0.19 when thats stable (and instances using it rn when they upgrade to a more recent release client) (Makes how programming.dev and lemmynsfw calculate community stats the default)

It doesn't, still spams low upvote posts, just slightly tweaked ordering

btw if you put the url to nim as /c/nim@programming.dev I dont think the url bot will trigger since it does the same thing the ! format does

[Nim](/c/nim@programming.dev)

Nim

Edit: yeah looks like it didnt reply to me so this format works

Looks like a camelCase variable to me so its likely just a temporary word they replace with the actual bot name but something went wrong and it didn't replace it properly leading to the temporary text showing instead

There could be some other reasons but the actual cause cant really be determined without looking at the source code

Congrats on the alpha 🎉

Advent of code is an coding advent calendar where a new puzzle is released every day for people to solve

The numbers there (apart from the timer) in the site that was linked can be clicked to bring you to specific puzzles (1 aka Day 1 for the puzzle on the 1st of december, 2 aka Day 2 for the 2nd of december, etc.)

Weve got a go community in the site that you might get some answers from rather than the general community here !golang@programming.dev