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In the site's main chat room, there are bots posting all new questions from the main site and the meta site.

Are the chat regulars happy with these bots, or would you prefer them to be removed? (No, making them post faster is not possible.)

Is there interest in having the bots post questions with “interesting” tags from other sites? I'm thinking of [science-fiction], [fantasy], and [horror] on Literature, Movies, and maybe Writers. All of these sites are low-traffic compared to us; there'd be less than 1 per day on average altogether.

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I like the feeds in the chat. I've noticed that when I ask a question it's not until it hits the chat that I see people reading it. If the feature were removed, I feel like my exposure would be limited.

I also think it would be awesome if we could get some cross promotion from Lit and Movie. If you added them to our chat feed as well, it would boost their view count tremendously I think.

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    I'd like to note that, if one does not like the feeds in chat, you can ignore the bot and the posts will disappear from the room when you're logged in.
    – Aarthi Staff
    Commented Jan 17, 2012 at 23:56
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Suggestions - feel free to add/edit/remove any:

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    a vote from me against despicable me. just because it's on topic here doesn't mean we need all of their questions. as it stands, M/TV only has 5 despicable me questions right now. i'd rather use the slot for something at least moderately used.
    – phantom42
    Commented Jul 17, 2015 at 1:57
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    I know it's a lot of tags, but I think it may be managable if I filtered the rss with an off-site script.
    – b_jonas
    Commented Jul 17, 2015 at 8:24
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    Any reason why Star Wars isn't there?
    – Rogue Jedi
    Commented Apr 1, 2016 at 14:19
  • @Rogue Yes: no one has suggested it yet.
    – Möoz
    Commented Apr 1, 2016 at 21:25
  • just added 3 and have so many in mind, might write them later
    – Ankit Sharma
    Commented Jun 14, 2016 at 11:19
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    The whole thing is rather outdated. Everything MCU is already tagged marvel-cinematic-universe, everything Star Trek is already tagged star-trek.
    – TARS
    Commented Jun 14, 2016 at 11:23
  • @CahirMawrDyffrynæpCeallach I did thought to strike all the not needed ones but it's way outdated that i am thinking to add a new answer instead sometime in future
    – Ankit Sharma
    Commented Jun 14, 2016 at 11:29
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I like the Bots but would enjoy more fantasy posts and book posts being posted. There is far more sci-fi stuff and movie stuff then books and fantasy.

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  • I think the question was looking for specific tags to add
    – Valorum
    Commented Jun 19, 2016 at 9:29
  • Well then add the tags that would bring those elements in?
    – Rincewind
    Commented Jun 19, 2016 at 11:23
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    I don't quite understand this answer. Currently all new questions on SFF are piped into Mos Eisley, fantasy and sci-fi alike. The CW answer above is talking about which tags from Movies & TV to pipe into Mos, which of course won't help the goal of more fantasy book posts.
    – Rand al'Thor Mod
    Commented Jun 19, 2016 at 13:38
  • @Randal'Thor The OP didn't say anything about Movies and Tv just what tags you wanted to see more of from other places... But I get your point :) But wait this was posted four years ago... why are we talking about it now?
    – Rincewind
    Commented Jun 19, 2016 at 16:29
  • "In the site's main chat room, there are bots posting all new questions from the main site and the meta site. [...] Is there interest in having the bots post questions with “interesting” tags from other sites?" - (And unfortunately, the Literature site is dead.)
    – TARS
    Commented Jun 19, 2016 at 16:31
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    @Rincewind I don't know, why are we talking about it now? You're the one who just posted a new answer here! :-)
    – Rand al'Thor Mod
    Commented Jun 19, 2016 at 16:54
  • @Randal'Thor oops...?
    – Rincewind
    Commented Jun 19, 2016 at 17:45

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