Did you customize Discobot for your community?

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Community managers are customizing Discobot to fit their community’s personality. Some examples include renaming the bot, such as Canapin who renamed it “Monobot” for a French unicycling forum, and twofoursixeight who nicknamed it “Darkbot”. Others, like Lhc_fl, have translated the bot’s language to make it sound more natural, while HAWK created community-specific bots, such as “DiscoFeverbot” and “UXMbot”. nolo recommends turning off the bot’s welcome message to make interactions more personal. Some communities have even replaced Discobot with a custom mascot, like jordan-violet who created “Codey”, a character that handles automation tasks and has a backstory.

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On my French unicycling forum, I renamed it “Monobot” (unicycle is monocycle in French). I changed the avatar as well and recently chose a new one:

Did you customize Discobot for your community? In which way, to what extent? :robot:

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On the https://forum.dark-gaming.com site, discobot has a nickname called “darkbot”. That’s about it though.

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On my forums, I changed the discobot’s language line by line to keep it from looking too much like an emotionless machine :slightly_smiling_face:

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At times discobot has no identity. This is why people like to change the text that it sends. :slight_smile:

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I’m still working on my forum, so far I can say something more natural

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I did in a couple of communities that I used to manage.

At experts.feverbee.com we had discofeverbot

At community.uxmastery.com we had UXMbot

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I usually recommend turning off the bot’s welcome message while keeping the tutorials enabled. So all messages to members are sent by the actual community team and they mention the option to start the tutorials.

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We have a mascot that represents our community of developers, and we replaced Discobot with them. Their name is Codey (“code” was the operative part) and we worked with a design company to give them a backstory, etc. etc. etc. Pretty fun experience designing a character. We use Codey to handle any sort of automation that interacts with our users.

Anyways, this is Codey.

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Codey looks like a bada**

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Codey is a defender of identity through identity security, so they have to be!

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