Hello world,

Today we are starting an April Fools charity event called: Lemmy Silver! accessible to all users of Lemmy with an account made before today (also non-world users!).

From now on, every 24 hours, you can comment !lemmysilver under any post in participating communities (see: this post for more information), or send a PM to this bot account with (!lemmysilver [username]). We will keep a score depending on the amount of votes you send and receive. More details can be found in this post.

In this post we will keep a live leaderboard. At the end of April the users with the highest score will get these prices:

  1. €150 to a charity of choice
  2. €100 to a charity of choice
  3. €75 to a charity of choice
  4. €50 to a charity of choice
  5. €25 to a charity of choice

If you are a moderator and want to add your community to the whitelist, type !whitelistsilver in the comments or in a PM to the bot account to whitelist all the communities you moderate, or send a PM to me (Thekingoflorda).

The price fund is made up by personal donations from members of the admin team and the moderation team, no money from the Fedihosting Foundation is used for this event. If you want to contribute to the price fund, please send me a PM.

We also made a little survey for this event, so if you have 2 minutes, please fill it out: https://app.formbricks.com/s/cm8x96xjc022vvt01xr0z9tdp

Feel free to leave any feedback here in the comments, in [email protected] or by sending them to my PMs. The bot’s PM will probably not be read. Please be honest, but respectful and keep the TOS in mind.

Thank you everyone! Hope you have fun.

PS. The bot might be a bit unstable in the beginning, so please send all your complaints my way so I can fix the inevitable bugs.

  • A Basil Plant@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Ah, I think I misunderstood - the lemmy silver is for one to award to a different user, and not for one to claim? I was under the impression that it was the latter.

    Neat idea!

  • sunaurus@lemm.ee
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    22 days ago

    This is cool!

    Any rules for alts? Can people “claim” alt accounts to sum up their votes?

    • Thekingoflorda@lemmy.worldOPM
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      22 days ago

      well we don’t allow accounts that are younger then the 1st of april, and cheating with alts that where made before that time is ofcourse not allowed. We can never catch everyone, but if we notice it, it would at least disqualify you from the event.

      • sunaurus@lemm.ee
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        22 days ago

        What I mean is that some posters have a bunch of alts on different instances, and if they get awards split between their accounts, then they’ll be at a bit of a disadvantage 😄

        • Thekingoflorda@lemmy.worldOPM
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          22 days ago

          eh well generally it is linked to each different account. Not much I can do about that unfortunately, since two different people might have the same username on different instances.

  • Donjuanme@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Wait this just posted? Sorry for my negativity, I shouldn’t have said anything at all. I’ll leave feedback in the survey posted.

    Thanks for trying to get community involvement!

    Next year you might want to announce the event earlier into the day, it feels like a lot of the world has already had their April 1st gone by, especially the social media aspect.

  • Poplar?@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Nice idea, thanks to the admins for coming up with this and putting their money to fund it.

    I guess we’re likely to see a fair number of comments trying to award silver.

    Can we have a “!repeatAward” or similar command? Reply to a “!lemmySilver” comment with it and you can award for the same comment or post. IMO that would reduce clutter because you can then just collapse the first award command and get on with reading actual comments. Maybe even delete all “!lemmySilver” commands after the first one, and DM people letting them know they should use the “!repeatAward” command.

    • Thekingoflorda@lemmy.worldOPM
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      22 days ago

      That’s a good idea, will work on that after I’m sure the bot is stable.

      You can also PM the bot to award someone lemmy silver in the meantime (:

  • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago

    I dont really understand the whole lemmysilver thing but thanks for getting a fun community charity raffle set up. You didn’t need to get a prize pool together so going the extra mile out of pocket to do that for a community event is such a cool move.

  • davidgro@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    One quick bit of pedantry, I am pretty sure you mean “prize” not “price” throughout the entire post.

  • arotrios@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago

    !lemmysilver

    Lot better than that train wreck they have going on over at /r/field… well done, my liege.

    On a side note, your gator faithful await your call to dethrone DeSantis. When will the beacons of Orlando be lit, my lord?

    Edit: Please disregard - that was meant for the King of Florida.

  • JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de
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    21 days ago

    !lemmySilver

    Just testing does it still count if the comment contains other text after the command. It’s not immediately clear from the instructions how that works.