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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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]) to award the poster points. 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 prizes:

  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 prize 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 prize 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 !LemmySilver@lemmy.world 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.

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[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 69 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

thank you lol, just for clarity, I am not eligible for the price, so if I win the person after me can choose the charity.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Beat me to it by 4 minutes.

[-] Redditsux@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

If I win I will donate to the Red Cross for Myanmar Earthquake victims. Let's do it lemmy!

[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago
[-] lena@gregtech.eu 11 points 1 month ago

I will donate to the Rainbow Railroad to help LGBTQ+ people get to safety

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[-] Jerb322@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

For the last ten years I've been growing my hair out to donate to "Children with Hair Loss". Takes me two years to get it to length. Two full head of hair and two mohawks. Third mohawk going soon.

That's going to be my charity, if I win.

[-] vatlark@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Does the capitalization of lemmysilver matter? Can it be Lemmysilver, LemmySilver, lemmysilver, LeMmYsIlVeR?

[-] Ziglin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
[-] LemmySilverBot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Thank you for voting. You can vote again in 24 hours. leaderboard

[-] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

It should not matter

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[-] LemmySilverBot@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh no problem. It's a bit of a trial to see how people like events like this.

And about the timing thingy, the problem was that I work during the day and want to keep taps on the first few hours of the bot so it doesn't go rogue.

[-] poplargrove@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month 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.world 7 points 1 month 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 (:

[-] GroupNebula563@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Just a tip! The whitelist command works on the leaderboard post: https://lemmy.world/post/27663919

It does not appear to work on this post

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[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yep, lol. Thank you!

[-] onyxjet@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
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[-] RobertTableaux@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago
[-] LemmySilverBot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities: sqlserver

[-] sunaurus@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

This is cool!

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

[-] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month 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.

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[-] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
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[-] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[-] LemmySilverBot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities: starcitizen

[-] arotrios@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[-] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yes, that message is better for the king of florida B, not me, the king of florida A.

[-] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 3 points 1 month ago

This is great fun thanks for doing it

[-] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago
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