RE: LUV command by itself

This is something I've thought about. With LUV, I like to have the reply/confirmation on. Two reasons, one, I think most people like some type of confirmation. (I know they can check it in an H-E explorer, but people aren't really going to do that.) Two, the goal is to give love, something positive and encouraging (LUV the token is just a bonus). By removing the message and allowing things to run silently in the background, this is diminished in my view.

I've actually had users fuss at me about this when I turned the replies off for a time to conserve RCs. Their premise was something like this: LUV was not following its intended goal and now it's just become nothing but a selfish mining token!

With HBIT, the reply/confirmation is less necessary, I agree. I've had it off quite often to conserve RCs. Still, I like it on because of the confirmation part. I've noticed that when it's off, the bot gets a lot of second attempts, third attempts, etc. by the same person. No doubt they figured it didn't go through, so they just try again.

Spamminess and unreadable posts is one thing I worry about. I try to whittle the LUV and HBIT response down to bare bones. It's also one reason behind the move to cut back on mass "!" commands. One thing is for sure on this, pleasing everyone isn't possible. Just got to try to do the best we can. Thank you for your feedback and thoughts on this. !LUV !hbit