stories and ideas for podcast feature

[novel wedge]

first

[vocal cape]

AH

second

[novel wedge]

story about your life and how u grew up to be a dev

ez

pz

[hexed igloo]

dog

[forest lantern]

woah

[timid dune]

If any of you have developed specific bots in this space, I'd love to share about them on the podcast!

Or, if you are in servers that are using bots in this way those stories will be great to share too.

[cloud vessel]

moderation bots don't count right

[novel wedge]

If u look at my top.gg profile u can look at that maybe but idk if it will be good content

[vocal cape]

Same with me as mine is a bot with like one actual purpose

and the bot just sits in the server and notifies of suspicious users and known dodgy users

[timid dune]

I think they could count!

[cloud vessel]

in what way do they improve the well being of a person though, thats the question

the only bot that I have made that is currently active is a moderation bot

[vocal cape]

Well one of my bots i'm working on does help as its a motivation bot

[cloud vessel]

My bot filters out nsfw

so maybe that helps by making ur server feel like a safer place or something

[vocal cape]

My current bot helps prevent raids and nukes so that could count as it stops people worrying about their servers being destroyed

[cloud vessel]

At least you don't need to feel insecure about random people ruining the experience for you and others by causing chaos

[vocal cape]

yup ^^

[timid dune]

exactly - i think the moderation bots can help create a safe space and could improve mental/emotional health that way

[vocal cape]

yep

[cloud vessel]

yes

[timid dune]

could you share a bit more about your bot names and how they help? or any stories from servers that use your bots? thanks!

[cloud vessel]

I just share it here right

or do I do that in dms

[timid dune]

here is perfect!

[vocal cape]

My bot is Blacklister (https://top.gg/bot/866364881917837312) and it automatically flags up a known raider, nuker and people who are known to ruin people's experience on Discord. It has a database of around 1.3k blacklisted people atm (growing fast) and it is partly community run as it relies on reports from users. https://blacklister.xyz

[cloud vessel]

My bot is Anti NSFW https://top.gg/bot/706054368318980138 and it automatically detects any NSFW media sent into your Discord Server and deletes it while also sending a log message to the logs channel you specify, Its currently being used by over 1.8k servers and growing.

Not really that effective on discord atm since discord already has a filter but I might port it to other platforms that don't have this kind of filter to make it more useful in those places

When I made it discord didn't update their filter yet so it was pretty useful

[novel wedge]

My Bot Is a Multi Purpose Discord Bot But Main Feature Is Music!
Top.gg Link: https://top.gg/bot/849603776343310336
Website Link: https://btmc.dev
and the bot can play music the peoples needs if they want to play music to let their mind off things Like Depression ECT. and you can also use our fun commands to have a laugh with friends or your self to let minds off other things! ❤️

[stiff girder]

I have a question

how the hell does bots improve people's well being, mental health, physical health (??), and emotional health

[bronze ridge]

Quick reminder, this thread is about stories and ideas for the podcast feature mentioned on the first message. It isn't intended for being a place of promotion of your bot. Thank you for understanding

[stiff girder]

bro I shared that for the podcast

[timid dune]

you can refer to the great examples above that @vocal cape @cloud vessel and @novel wedge shared. There's also bots being developed to remind people to exercise or take breaks or have step challenges (I believe health hero is working on one)

[bronze ridge]

I guess I'll share my bot though because it's free promo;
was pretty much your message together with that

[stiff girder]

yes that was put as a joke

and kristin, I literally used a similar theme

just with a bit more humor

ugh, whatever, don't care anymore, imagine taking a joke together with positive intent as negative intent

[bronze ridge]

I again, note towards this not being a channel purely for promoting

[novel wedge]

okay bet

@timid dune whats the link to the podcast again

oop dw i read the announcement again

mb

sorry

[timid dune]

No worries! let me know if you think of any other examples. They don't necessarily have to be bots you created yourself - could be bots that you enjoy or examples you've seen from servers you are a part of! I think the music example you shared is great.

[faint pasture]

I'm an owner of Truth or Dare bot (230k servers) https://top.gg/bot/692045914436796436, and we've had some awesome stories of how the bot has helped users meet new friends, build community, and stay connected throughout the last 2 years. A lot of the bot's questions help friends get to know each other better, and it's been awesome to hear some of these stories.

A couple weeks ago, the old owner couldn't sustain the bot and its insane growth over quarantine and unfortunately had to bring it offline. Me and a few friends from school had been using it, and it had really helped me meet new friends there, and get to know them a lot better. As we had been in quarantine for the whole year before the bot had played a big part in me staying connected. Noticing it went offline, I joined their community server to see people sharing their stories of how the bot had helped them stay connected and in some cases, even find a partner!

Seeing these stories and having experience in bot development, it all clicked. An online friend of mine and I decided to offer to help the old owner bring it back online, and rewrote the whole thing to make it much more stable (nerd stuff: we brought the memory usage from 20gb+ down to 150mb). We were ecstatic to see how happy the community was that it was back, and even more to see the response from my school friends that we had brought it back. Seeing the community and my friends happy about this really hit me and allowed me to see how much influence this bot had on people. It made me think about how many people shared my same experience, and how many people it brought together, and I'm really happy that we were able to do this.

Let me know if this is useful to the podcast, and if you have any other questions about the bot :)

Will the bots and stuff be mentioned by name, or will this all just be under topgg?

[cloud vessel]

That sounds amazing!

Who knew discord bots could have this much impact on the lives of others

[vocal cape]

That does sound amazing!

And a great story too.

[novel wedge]

it really does sound amazing!

[cloud vessel]

I bet many people are happy that you brought it back ❤️

[granite parrot]

amazing!

[timid dune]

I have the recording with them next week on Wednesday. I do plan to mention the bots by name is that is okay with you and everyone else who shared! I won't know exactly what will make the final cut as they will probably edit the conversation.

Even if they edit it, I'd like to create a twitter post / thread to highlight some of these stories and the bots & developers after the podcast is published!

Really loving all of the stories shared so far -- thank you!

[vocal cape]

Thats fine with me 🙂 Thank you for doing this!

[faint pasture]

Sounds good, would you like any usage statistics or any other infos (maybe to show the scale and influence that Discord bots have)?

[timid dune]

That would be great! I'll try to weave in as much as I can into the questions/conversation! Thank you 🙏

[novel wedge]

good with me tbh

[vocal cape]

Whilst my bot is only in 120ish servers, its managed to prevent around 50 raids and helped the server owners ban those users quickly. The public API is used by around 25 other bots and over 100 users have been flagged up on there too, so around 150 overall potential raids/bad users have been stopped from causing any disruption to people's experience. I hope this has helped those server owners feel relieved and less stressed about having their hard work ruined.

[novel wedge]

i follow u on twitter but u dont follow me back

[timid dune]

We would tweet this from the official https://twitter.com/JoinTopgg account

Top.gg (@JoinTopgg)

The #1 place to find & discover Discord Bots and Servers. Come explore the metaverse with us! Need help? @TopggSupport or https://discord.com/invite/yMkDAfWw2n

Tweets

206

Followers

2977

Twitter

[novel wedge]

;OO

pog

https://Marshy.is-into-goth-girls.club/oljZi1sz u see that FOLLOWING ;))

[faint pasture]

Whoops, I forgot about this! We get about 500k commands run every day, I'm not sure what other stats I can get ya though. (We're not caching anything on the gateway)

[brave mango]

Two really good mental health bots are Aphrodite and CareBot. I developed CareBot but Aphrodite and it’s dev are both really really nice. There are actually quite a bit of other mental health bots too: Mental health resource bot, RTS bot, Ernie, etc.

[timid dune]

thank you! love these examples

[novel wedge]

@timid dune can i add bots that aren't on the site or do they have to be on the site

[timid dune]

They would need to be on top.gg - can you tell those bots to add themselves to top.gg ?

[ripe stream]

can you explain more kristin?

i dont understand

[vocal cape]

If you know of a bot that is what Kristin’s is interested in then share here

[ripe stream]

?

[vocal cape]

It has to be a bot that can have a positive effect on mental health

[ripe stream]

oh

okay...

eh!!!!!!!!!!

[vocal cape]

#announcements message

[ripe stream]

muted people can still chat!

should i write about how did i make my bot and get it verified?

[brave burrow]

@ripe stream Refrain from speaking here. Thanks.

[ripe stream]

?

[ripe stream]

so @brave burrow should i write about this?

[brave burrow]

You've been muted. If you continue to speak due to the permissions issue you will be removed.

[ripe stream]

ah... so if i continued to speak here i cant speak more?

[ripe stream]

and should i write about this?

[brave burrow]

-b @ripe stream

[novel wedge]

L

[vocal cape]

L

[proven furnace]

L

[timid dune]

Even if you didn’t develop the bot yourself but know of one related to this or any any stories about personal experience you can share here. If you’ve seen a server you’re in use one of these bots that would be a great example too. The server and bot need to be on top.gg 🙂 hope that helps!

[timid dune]

this is the bot that was developed by the podcast hosts: https://top.gg/bot/884987637977464882 "Go! By Health Hero"

[brave burrow]

actually the idea is nice,connecting third party acc

[timid dune]

@vocal cape @cloud vessel @novel wedge @faint pasture @brave mango thank you again for the amazing examples & stories. I'm putting my notes together for the recording tomorrow and can't wait to share all the examples. Two last questions/asks:
1️⃣ What name should I refer to you when speaking on the podcast? Right now I have "Big Bun", "Link", "Marshy"," Coding" and "Triangle" Please correct me if you prefer that I use another name / tag. The two I wasn't sure about are "Big Bun" for @vocal cape and "Marshy" for @novel wedge

2️⃣ Could you let me know your Twitter account and/or bots Twitter account? When the podcast is published we plan to create some social posts https://twitter.com/JoinTopgg and I want to make sure we can tag you when we feature some of the examples and stories. Of course, only share it here if you're comfortable with being tagged. If you prefer to share it more privately - you can DM me on twitter instead of replying here (Here is my Twitter https://twitter.com/kristinmchen - unfortunately I have to keep my server DMs off)

Top.gg (@JoinTopgg)

The #1 place to find & discover Discord Bots and Servers. Come explore the metaverse with us! Need help? @TopggSupport or https://discord.com/invite/yMkDAfWw2n

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206

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2996

Twitter

kristinmchen.eth 🔜 NFT.NYC (@kristinmchen)

CEO @JoinTopgg. Board Member @PartnersSI. Member @CryptoSocietyS1 @protein @sharkDAO. Formerly @SoundCloud @Pinterest @Twitch @LinkedIn @Cornell Alum.

Tweets

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[novel wedge]

Oop

[vocal cape]

Ben is fine for me. My twitter name is @Ben14124 (https://twitter.com/ben14124) Thank you for doing this 🙂

. (@ben14124)

Tweets

5

Followers

144

Twitter

[novel wedge]

U pinged Ben

Poor Ben

[feral rune]

hi

[novel wedge]

U can call me Ricky Or Marshy in the podcast (your choice) and my twitter is https://twitter.com/Marshxan

Marshxan (@Marshxan)

Fuck It Bro

Tweets

3680

Followers

1420

Twitter

[vocal cape]

sorry ben - my bad

[novel wedge]

And u can mention me in the tweet it’s up to u

[timid dune]

we would love to mention everyone if they are okay with it! thanks for sharing your twitter!

[novel wedge]

No prob

[vocal cape]

Thats fine with me

[brave mango]

You can call me Triangle or mysterious unnamed shape. Anything works!

Here’s the bot’s Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/CareBot1

Nothing’s really on it though

CareBot (@CareBot1)

Providing meaningful mental health resources for thousands of users across Discord!

Tweets

4

Followers

4

Twitter

[novel wedge]

@timid dune 1 quick thing what time does the podcast start

[faint pasture]

Yeah, you can refer to me as Coding. For twitter, https://twitter.com/truthordareteam.

[timid dune]

It's a recording that's taking place tomorrow so nothing livestreamed unfortunately. I will ask them when they plan to publish it and also share it here when it's live!

[timid dune]

Just finished the podcast recording -- I was able to mention all the stories and examples we collected! (I hope everything will make their final edit!). The Health Hero Team shared that the recording should be ready within the next week. I'll post an announcement when I have the links and we'll do a series of Twitter posts shortly after it goes live. Thanks again for the amazing stories! ❤️

[vocal cape]

Tysm for sharing them!

[novel wedge]

thanks ❤️

[plush osprey]

Hello

[faint pasture]

Awesome!