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r/RequestABot • … • u/apullin

[Request] Bot that automatically posts the reverse of a gif as a comment.

So, for any post that is a GIF that reaches some level of exposure, there *will always* be a response of someone posting the reverse of the gif. Sometimes with a pseudo clever quip, although it is commonly just a description of the reverse of the process.

You wouldn't want this on *every* gif posted on reddit, perhaps just ones that get over ~400 in score in so. Usually when something hits that, it is probably going to percolate up to the front page of /r/all.

I'm sure the same behavior of throwing the "reverse description" will then happen as the resulting comment, but were it to be an automated response with the reverse gif, it would really be something to behold. I predict that we would see the crowd clamoring after it to throw comedy lines at it, like a carnival ring toss. It would be a *wonderful* exposition of the reddit style of bandwagoneering compulsive performance-art attempted comedy.

The same joke, conceptually, is made every time, and mechanizing that would be a real commentary on that behavior.

Just call it REVERSE_GIF_BOT, or something. I understand that this potentially qualifies as a spamming bot, since it made to submit a top-level comment based on some fairly general criteria. Maybe give it a very conservative criteria to begin with, and see how well it performs?

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