M88 Bot (stylized as "m88 bot") is a Discord Bot used in the LittleBigPlanet Union Discord server. The main purpose of the bot is to "mock" users in a sense who begin their sentences with any form of "I'm".
History
M88 Bot was created on December 1st, 2022, by a Discord user known as Poppies.
It originally replied to any message which began with a form of "I'm", but per a request from the Peacekeeper team and a few users, the random probability system was introduced. With the new probability system, every message has a one in three chance of triggering the response.
Bot Outages and Downtime
The bot has only been taken offline purposefully once. This happened on December 4th, where M88youngling ran a special command which killed the bot process in preparation for an important event. This was to prevent the bot from flagging questions during the LBPCC2 Q&A with Mark Hall.
Per-Message Reporting
Also on December 4th, a new feature was released around 4:00 PM EST, which enabled the ability to report malicious responses to the maintainers of the bot. Every response has a button below the message, stating "Report this Response". Upon selecting this option, an interface will appear, allowing the user to review the report before submitting it. Upon submitting, a Case ID is generated, and an alert is delivered to the Direct Messages of the bot maintainers, who will then file a report with the appropriate moderation contacts. An example of an alert is provided below.
*** NEW MODERATION CASE OPENED #13546 *** Message ID ... 1049085435051266228 Message Channel ... <#705913671297138789> Message Guild ... LBP Union Reporter Name ... kokoism#9999 Reporter Nick ... poppies® (m88 bot dev :trl:) ...Message Contents... Hi gonna rage, I'm Michael! PLEASE FORWARD THIS INFORMATION TO PROPER MODERATION CONTACTS.
Technical Details
The bot scans each message sent against a Regular Expression (Regex for short), and if the message matches the Regex, it will trigger the probability system. If the random probability system passes, a reply will be sent with the format "Hi (message), I'm Michael!".