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Thanks.
So here's the thing:
On the home page there's a "newsfeed" area where the latest headlines of any board can appear. It is changeable which board, but by default it shows /news/, and /news/ is the news outlet of endchan/pol. I don't mind being theirs it's not a problem, however being /news/ the default means that on End's home page the newsfeeds shows headlines about Hitler, The Jews, Pedophile Jews, Conspiring Jews, and a little more Jews, and it gives an impression that Endchan and the staff pledges to a certain political stance. It's not our or Endchan's job to do such thing, but to provide a place where users can express their opinion, no matter what their political views.
So I figured the default board should be changed, but no good candidate for that, a news board is perfect. There's /n/ but turns out /n/ stands for "never gets updated", simply End has too few users for it. And browsing news, collecting, and posting them is a job in itself.
So I thought why not a bot, it shouldn't chat, just copy stuff from one place to another. One problem is that what and where. The best would be tech/IT news of some kind, probably from the free software world, while has a little socialist undertone, it isn't really politics. I guess from that world it is possible to find bloatless sites, so no ads or other funkyness to deal with. One more pro to it: even the more uninteresting article has something to offer so they don't need to be vetted as with the average news.
I put forward the idea, but Odili hasn't reacted yet. And to be honest I'd rather have him doing liek I can have him doing anything... that Lynx update or fixing the stuff piling up around. And he's probably has some other stuff to do with his life as well.
I can't ask anyone to do it and I have close to none knowledge of this, but I thought we might can explore the idea a little.