Hey folks! Just a "minor" update, to announce a new permanent resident of the LuckyBit chatbox:
ModBot!
ModBot is available to help with many aspects of your LuckyBit experience around the clock, including:
- Wager lookup service - Look up any pending wager on LuckyBit, and get a guess as to whether it'll confirm quickly
- Fee estimation service - Get a best guess about the optimal fees to use when wagering
- Lotto fish rank lookup - Find the "fish rank" for chat-lotto prizes for any address (including eligibility timeout)
- Market rate lookup - Get an approximation for the current value in USD of an amount of bitcoins
- Lotto Claim Game - An extra chance to get chat-lotto, even if you haven't wagered yet!
Using ModBot is easy - start by typing
!help to get a simple help message any time.
Here is a list of commands available to the public:
- !block - Find out when the most recent block was mined.
- !commands - Get this list of commands, without descriptions
- !fees - Get a best guess about the optimal fees to use when wagering
- !ping - Have the ModBot test its connection to LuckyBit
- !status - Get the current status of the Claim Game and ModBot's operational mode
- !help (command) - Briefly describe what a command does (or provide the simple help message)
- !mods (message) - Request assistance from the staff. The message is optional, and you can also invoke this effect by using the @mods tag in chat
- !price (amount) - Convert an amount of bitcoins to USD (approximately). Default to 1 BTC
- !fish - Get the chat-lotto eligibility status of an address
- !lookup - Look up a LuckyBit wager transaction, and guess if it will confirm soon
- !answer - When ModBot is selected by chat-lotto, help it answer the question with this command
- !claim - When ModBot is selected by chat-lotto, claim its prizes to your address
The Claim GameWhat do you do when bots compete for attention? Give away bitcoins, of course! When ModBot is selected for the chat-lotto prize, it needs help from someone in chat to claim it. Use the
!answer command to answer the question. Before you do, though, you can claim the ModBot's prizes with the
!claim command! The Claim Game works like king of the hill: the last person to claim gets any future prizes until somebody else claims it. However, the opportunity to claim only comes when the ModBot is selected - so be quick! Once an answer is provided, or any new claim is recognized, you'll have to wait for the next chance. Just to make it more interesting,
LuckyBit staff can't use the !claim command.
Anti-AbuseLuckyBit staff have access to a few other commands to combat potential abuse. The
!status command will report on the current operational status, which can be changed by moderators as necessary. There are three options:
- Claim Game - The ModBot will automatically ban and unclaim any player that attempts to claim the lotto with the address already established as the claim. Human moderators can disable the Claim Game entirely, and route all ModBot prizes to the tip jar instead, if necessary.
- Announcements - The ModBot will periodically (every 2-4h) post an advertisement for a LuckyBit service or the occasional humorous message*. Should this feature become troublesome for players, or somehow malfunction, staff can disable it.
- Lockdown - If it is discovered that the ModBot is being abused for spam or leeching purposes, the public functions can be disabled entirely, rendering it useless to all non-staff visitors until manually returned to normal operation.
Have fun, and good luck!
* Messages may not always be humorous to all visitors