Started persisting all rule violations and which punishments were enforced for transparency reasons, and because the people asked for it 😎 #watchdog

Automate DB migrations for Watchdog so that I can start building the reporting functionality customers are asking for #watchdog

Register new reddit account using a VPN and create another bot because Reddit won't respond to my support request asking why they banned the old bot for no reason #watchdog !private

Get banned on Reddit for no reason and post about it on X: x.com/ben_makes_stuff/status/… #watchdog !private

Talk to socialdata founder and ask for an X API to fetch the latest posts from a community so I can help @bdlowery and @marc with chat moderation for Build In Public #watchdog !private

Fixed an issue with Watchdog for Reddit where sometimes the bot would crash in the event that Reddit returned a 5xx error. For now just restarting after 5 seconds b/c it's not clear if restarting immediately will hammer the reddit API too much in the event of an outage #watchdog

Lauch Watchdog on /r/NixOS, one of the biggest subreddits on the site, and respond to some reddit users' AI-related concerns about Watchdog being used: www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/commen… #watchdog !private

Get added to uneed.best: www.uneed.best/tool/watchdog #watchdog !private

Reduced the number of reddit API calls by sending modmail to the subreddit (which automatically sends to all moderators) instead of sending mail to each mod one-by-one #watchdog

See Watchdog catching rulebreakers on a subreddit with 20k+ members (biggest community yet) #watchdog !private

Include permalink to moderated messages so mods can take a look at the comment thread for more context if needed #watchdog

Get Watchdog's AI working on Reddit and see it sending modmail and replying to bad posts #watchdog

Analyze reddit posts, not just comments #watchdog !private

Get a basic reddit bot working for Watchdog and see it replying to comments as expected #watchdog !private

Get approved for Reddit API access #watchdog

+$39 MRR for Watchdog x.com/ben_makes_stuff/status/… thanks to @domenkozar! #watchdog !private

Finally! watchdog.chat is unblocked on LinkedIn a full month after getting blacklisted on SURBL. LinkedIn support was 100% useless so I think some automated process took care of this one instead of their support team. #watchdog

Removed free trials for Watchdog and added a "Try on Discord/Telegram" button instead to let people try bot for free #watchdog

Removed free trials for Watchdog and added a "Try on Discord/Telegram" button instead to let people try bot for free #watchdog

Added some new alternative pages to Watchdog: Mee6 and Dyno. These bots do chat moderation, but only at a basic level and encounter too many false positives: watchdog.chat/compare/mee6-al… and watchdog.chat/compare/dyno-al… #watchdog