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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. โ‚ฌ150 to a charity of choice
  2. โ‚ฌ100 to a charity of choice
  3. โ‚ฌ75 to a charity of choice
  4. โ‚ฌ50 to a charity of choice
  5. โ‚ฌ25 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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[โ€“] Jerb322@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours 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.

[โ€“] verity_kindle@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] LemmySilverBot@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities:

[โ€“] verity_kindle@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] LemmySilverBot@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities:

[โ€“] lena@gregtech.eu 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I can't afford to donate to them currently, so have a Lemmy silver to go towards you !lemmysilver

[โ€“] LemmySilverBot@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

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

[โ€“] vatlark@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] Ziglin@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] LemmySilverBot@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

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

It should not matter

[โ€“] Astrealix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities: gunners nyu hongkong hollowknight

[โ€“] RobertTableaux@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Grimy@lemmy.world 52 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)
[โ€“] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days 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.

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[โ€“] Kolanaki@pawb.social 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

!whitelistsilver

[โ€“] onyxjet@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If I can answer any question(s) to make it more clear, feel free to ask (:

[โ€“] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Does your vote get reset exactly 24 hours after your last vote, or is it reset midnight UTC time?

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[โ€“] pixelmeow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Redditsux@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (7 children)

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

[โ€“] dephyre@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] LemmySilverBot@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

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

[โ€“] dovahking@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] deus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] rhelawyn@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you for participating! Added to the following communities:

[โ€“] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 3 points 2 days ago

This is great fun thanks for doing it

[โ€“] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] LemmySilverBot@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

[โ€“] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for putting this together!

It looks like a lot of people are attempting to use it on comments instead of a direct reply to the post, while expecting it to go to the commenter.

Can we get a confirmation from the bot of who the vote is going to?

[โ€“] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Uh sure, yea will add that in the next update. But in the case you described it would go to the commenter.

Oh, awesome, I thought we had to pm it to the bot to give it to a commenter. Thanks!

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