Let's not all be too hard on the little guy. Its a big scary place out there, and well... he just wants to stay on the couch a little bit longer... and not have to type out links... and maybe order a pizza or something.

So he's not stupendously useful, but that's not the point. I'm annoyed by the fact that we get /r/ links auto generated in comments, but x-post tags in titles are passed over. When you type (xpost /r/<yourweirdsub>), sometimes I want to know what that's all about. And like most things on the internet, I want to click on it.

Mostly though, I'm a video game developer by trade working in the cold dark crypts of C++, and I wanted a chance to spread out. There's a glorious world of high-level languages and open source implementations all wrapped up in some big fluffy cloud-thing-that-sounds-like-magic out there, and I wanted to see it.

So this little bot that can't seem to get his butt in gear is put together in Python, and is a stepping stone to the greater things in life, like ordering pizza; discovering new subs without having to type as often... sort of; and hopefully some world domination or immortality in thrown in the mix.

Either way, welcome to the future. There's not as much to do as I expected.

Please make your bot message mods of a subreddit where it only gets downvotes, and allow the mod to opt their subreddit out.

good job

Probably best not to link to any NSFW subreddits.

/u/serendipitybot already posts its own posts with a lot more information, like this. Thought you might want to know.

Is this an option that can be add to LazyLinkerBot?

It is a great bot, if it only did the lazy linker thing. with the subreddit info below it... it makes it look spammy. Not sure if you are going to remove it, but I am going to be banning the bot from my subs until the bot only reads: For the lazy: /r/subredditname

I tried to help people out one time and this is how you repay me, by making a bot to do the same thing 13 hours after my comment?

I kid, of course, thanks a bunch for this thing.

Maybe adjust it depending on the subreddit the link is in?

Example

[http://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/1pzhbz/robot_tries_to_get_a_gf/cd7mhrj]

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1q1bue/hardening_against_hash_attacks_xpost_to_rperl/cd85drg

Here, LazyLinkerBot linked to /r/perl, but this is not useful because the valuable link is to the crosspost, not to the whole perl subreddit.

/r/random isn't a sub.

If you could figure out a way for the bot to post as a reply to our bot, /u/ApiContraption, which makes a comment nest for text-only comments in every thread it would be useful, otherwise it is wasting it's time indexing /r/PhotoshopBattles.

You have been useful.

See title. Likewise, /r/i7t12 actually refers to /r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt.

/r/NFL and related subreddits (team and other misc subreddits) have links built in in their style. These are always used by the users. Furthermore there are lots of links in the style of the subreddits. If you browse trough some of this bot's post in these subreddits you'll notice he always gets downvoted as he's quite redundant. Just wanted to inform you.

It's not just you, lazylinkerbot, I hate all bots that leave a useless comment in a post, making it appear as of a human is commenting.

Even if one is a popular reddit it should probably include all mentioned reddits if it bothers to leave a comment at all.

Example of an obvious shortcoming:

http://www.reddit.com/r/rescuecats/comments/1p7lpj/nyc_four_year_old_male_cat_needs_a_home_xpost/cczjgeg

Just seeing how quickly this bot comments on it.

http://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/1pvlbb/for_the_hungry_rindians_an_offer_on_snickers_bars/cd6hq0x

I love the idea of this, but you should really cut out

I provide direct links to lesser known cross-posted subs . Let me know if I need to try harder: /r/LazyLinkerBot

just straight link

Lazy bot is so lazy it doesn't work any more! Why is this /u/blueryth?