What is to stop saidit from writing a bot to copy every submission from say reddit /r/technology into saidit?

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[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

And was that just for starting out, before the numbers?

We never did it

I know, but why were you considering it?

I might like the widget, maybe not. I hope it's good for me and others. It's a neat thing and I'll add it to the article and I hope you add it to the footer.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I know, but why were you considering it?

I can't remember if it was because the site was so dead, or if magnora wanted a particular sub mirrored over here because he liked it, or if it was gonna be general news content to balance out all of the conspiracy/politics content. we didn't consider it much at all.

that's just us though, we've had the API up and going the whole time and there's no site policy about it, so bot away as far as i'm concerned.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Well, intentionally or not I think it's ended up great. Sounds like you were there from the beginning. I thought you came in later.

Now I'm going to look up what API means. The first is American Petroleum Institute, so I don't think that's it. Now I have to look up Application Program Interface.

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That /r/conspiracy post where I volunteered to help magnora was the start of SaidIt. He had a bunch of ideas all cooked up, but there was no tech or anything written down or anything. So since the beginning.

SaidIt's API is how that bot can post here and how the RedReader android app can log you in here and let you make posts, etc. We basically have all of this setup and working: https://www.reddit.com/dev/api/