#with how common it is id rather trigger tag it for someone whos far more sensitive about the subject than i and doesnt wanna see Any of it

[pezpenser205]

the main reason i know im not femme in the slightest is bc i cant comprehend why anyone would Ever want to be feminine. i can understand neutral leaning fem, but the idea that people are born wanting to be feminine is appalling to me personally because femininity always felt like imprisonment and torture. it was and still is a restraint. a training weight i was forced to bear. i cant fully empathize or understand anyone who wants to be more feminine because i have never and will never want to be more feminine out of anything other than pressure or insecurity. im most comfortable being gender neutral, hairy and disgusting in old gym shorts and stained tshirts no matter how much insecurity it causes me. i dont care. im never dressing up all pretty for anyone elses benefit ever again. and i assume this is how people who want to be feminine feel about masculinity to some extent. if thats the case im super glad we could trade because holy moly

[stimmyvillainarchive]

WHY does the android app gotta suck so much, when i click the faq link it just like refreshes the page,,,, this happens with all links in bios on the andoird app :[

NNNN lovin this broke ass app.

I’mma go ahead and paste the FAQ just under the cut, hopefully you should be able to read it now :’))

(FAQ is written by Mod Joker)

“Are requests open?”

We get this ask a lot. And while I don’t mind answering, it does get a lilll annoying sometimes since we’re essentially repeating ourselves constantly. Before you ask, please check our ask box! It will ALWAYS give our request status!

From now on if we receive requests when they’re closed, we’re going to delete the message entirely. You’re free to ask again when they’re open, but we need breaks!

“Can allistic/neurotypical people follow?”

Yes! So long as you’re respectful of stimming and understand it’s not an aesthetic or something to make fun of.

“It says there’s two mods, but I only really see Mod Joker post.”

There is! But Mod Boo is rather, well, shy. We both are, tbh. I’ve just gotten used to talking a lot on this blog. And to tell ya the truth I invited her to mod this with me because she considered making a blog but wasn’t sure how she’d do it, and was worried she’d be too awkward/quiet. But she actually tends to see your messages a lot! She just tends to let me handle things. But if you ever wanna talk to her, just say the message is specifically for her and I’m sure she’ll get back to you. She’s very friendly and tbh one of the best people to talk to!!

“How do you make gifs?”

I use the same method stimmybby uses! His tutorial’s right here!

“How do you make banners?”

I use photoshop and for backgrounds (depending on what type of background), I use paint tool SAI. I made a tutorial on how I do it here!

“Can we use your banners for posts that aren’t stim related?”

Absolutely! So long as credit is given and you’re not in our dni, then use it as you like! Discourse posts, art, vent posts, promo posts, whatever floats your boat!

“Can I use your gif/s?”

As long as there’s credit to us for the gif/s and you don’t apply to our dni, you’re free to!

“How can I credit you?”

There’s a few ways! Such as

- Including the credit in the post and/or under the cut (this is the best way people can access the original post and see the credit!

- Include the credit in the post’s captions

- Include the credit in the tags

- Include a link in the post to another post that has the credits in it

- Saying you got the gif/s from us in the post

“What are bad/wrong ways to ”“credit”“ you?”

- Saying “I don’t own these gifs”

- Saying “credit to the original owner(s)/gifmaker(s)

- Straight up not saying you took these gifs from people/including in no credits

- Claiming the gif/s are yours/you made them

If I see any of these I WILL publicly call you out on it and you WILL be blocked immediately thereafter. That block will not be lifted.

“What does REG mean?”

Reactionary Exclusionary Gatekeeper. Meaning people who try to exclude certain queer people from queer spaces. Such a biphobes, transphobes, aphobes, panphobes, and so on.

“What does TERF mean?”

Trans/Transgender Exclusionary Radical Feminist. Meaning radfems who are transphobic and are violent towards trans people (especially trans women).

“What does SWERF mean?”

Sex Worker Exclusionary Radical Feminist. They’re radfems who try to exclude sex worker from their feminism and often treat women attracted to men as less worthy.

“What’s the ADT community?”

ADT stands for “Actually Dysphoric Trans/Transgender” and was created by transmedicalists/truscum to break off from the trans community. It’s an insult to the trans community, an insult to the creator of the transgender pride flag (it’s removed the white that was there for people who ID as non-binary/outside the gender binary), and is there purely to start drama and create rifts in a community that’s already got enough enemies for simply existing in a transphobic world

“He/Him lesbians don’t exist/they’re transphobic towards trans men”

As a trans man who doesn’t think the world revolves around me and who understands that what lesbians decide to do it literally none of my goddamn business: get the fuck over yourself you whiny pissbaby

“What do you mean by people in the true crime community?”

People who sexualize, romanticize, excuse, and/or support serial killers and their actions/crimes. This doesn’t include people who are INTERESTED in the topic of crimes, serial killers, etc but acknowledging how these people are disgusting and their actions are unforgivable.

“Why are you anti-cgl?”

Cause we hate pedophiles and are decent human beings.

“You’re bigoted to kinksters just like homophobes are bigoted to gay people!”

I hate to break it to ya bud but I’m proudly kinkphobic and you’re a giant homophobe!!

“I’m a SFW cgl(re)/littlespace blog so I’m following/interacting uwu”

No the fuck you aren’t!! You’re a kink blog, there’s no such thing as a “sfw kink” even if you’re remaining two braincells are too busy fighting over the last pacifier to tell you some fuckin common sense. Your ass is getting blocked and I’ll also be using your blog to take a look at the people you interact and block them too just for safe measure! Eat a cactus, fuck nugget

“You hate lesbians if you hate TERFs”

You owe every lesbian an apology for assuming they’re all mysogynistic, LGBT+phobic pieces of horseshit like you are. Eat a dick.

“aces/aros aren’t LGBT uwu”

Wow… that’s so wrong Alexa play Fuck You by Lily Allen

“Me/Someone I know/(insert user/s) has been blocked. Why?”

There can be a number of reasons why you’re blocked, and I’m not afraid to block people as I want this place comfortable and safe for the mods and followers. So there’s several reasons as to why.

- You apply to our DNI (see BYF)

- You’re a (insert harmless children’s cartoon) critical blog (I tend to block those due to them saying LGBT+phobic things)

- You get into kin drama

- You’re an ace discourse, pan discourse, bi discourse, and/or overall REG discourse blog (this does not mean I block inherently block discourse blogs! I block the shitty ones)

- You’re a spam/porn/etc bot (if I’ve gotten this wrong, lemme know! I tend to block shady and empty blogs for this reason unless their desc/url/etc says it’s empty/weird for a reason)

- You’re a blog that frequently posts/centers around one or more of my triggers

- You’re an aesthetic blog (though I tend to soft block for them. But this is NOT an aesthetic blog and stimmy is NOT an aesthetic)

- You’re an “anyone can interact” stim blog

- You’re a stim blog that steals/doesn’t credit the gifs they use

- I feel you and I are going to argue and I’m just saving us the trouble of future unpleasant encounter/s

- You’ve been shitty to my friends or just been shitty to people in general and I’ve noticed it

HOWEVER I’ve made slip ups in the past! If you feel you don’t apply to any of these, you can contact me through my main and ask why. Sometimes I don’t always remember why I blocked somebody (sadly there’s a lot of shitheads on this site I’ve needed to block) or I’ve confused one blog for another person’s blog. Or maybe the person was more chill than I thought. Please contact me yourself rather than ask somebody else to do it though so I can get all the details! Even if I don’t lift the block, I won’t report you for block evading or anything.

“You used to be kidheart friendly and now you’re not, why’s that?”

Sadly, Raven (the creator of Kidhearts) has proven to be a bully sympathizer and feels it’s okay to compare agere to kinks/cgl and sides with regressionuncensored. She condones bullying/harassment/the sexualization of minors and I am not nor will ever be okay with that.

“But Raven sai-”

I don’t care what she says. She made it abundantly clear that she supports regressionuncensored and I don’t care that it came back to bite her in the ass. Bullies deserve no support, no sympathy, no nothing. And if you side with her than don’t come near this blog. This is agere safe and I will not allow people who support sexualizing it to interact. Kidhearts WILL be blocked on the spot, no questions asked.

“I’ve left a community on the dni list, can I follow/interact?”

Yes!

“Why are you anti-(insert thing on blacklist here)?”

Camp Camp: It’s racist + antisemitic

Dragon Maid: It’s pedophilic

Killing Stalking: It’s homophobic, ableist, sexist, perpetuates rape culture, and fetishizes abuse

Your Lie in April: It romanticizes child abuse and it literally starts off with a gross pedo joke when we meet the love interest in episode one

Split: It’s ableist

Hetalia: It’s antisemitic

Harry Potter/J.K. Rowling’s works: Actually there’s nothing inherently bad about the story. I just don’t like it. HOWEVER: I can’t stand J.K. Rowling as she’s a TERF/overall LGBT+phobe, and racist. So none of her creations will be featured here.

Sonic Boom: Nothing inherently problematic. I just can’t stand the show because it just fuckin sucks

13 Reasons Why: It romanticizes suicide and the creators refused to listen to actual mental health experts and have made the show potentially dangerous to anyone who even slightly deals with suicidal thoughts/urges

Detroit Become Human: It’s racist + antisemitic

Voltron: Legendary Defender: It queerbaits/it’s LGBT+phobic

“REG is a transphobic term”

I, Mod Joker, am trans. Try again.

“A-specs aren’t LG-”

*buzzer sound* wrong. So sad for you

“You’re not LGBT+ because you DARED disagree with me because you actually acknowledged that tumblr didn’t credit the community sweaty uwu”

We get this shit because a lot of you assume I’m ace or at the very least a-spec. And… Ya couldn’t be far from it. I’m a pan, genderfluid trans man. Even with all your gatekeeper (sorry, BULLSHIT) logic; I’d still be attracted to multiple genders and not be cis. I’m p queer. So no matter which way you slice it, I’m part of LGBT+. Die mad about it.

“You’re comparing aphobes to TERFs and SWERFs you fucking transphobe!”

Wow I didn’t realize setting boundaries meant that I viewed y'all in the EXACT same light. I’m so glad I have the lovely aphobes that have told my friends that they should kill themselves to set me straight.

Asking people not to interact doesn’t inherently mean I think they’re the EXACT same thing.

“Mod Joker is a gif-thief and reposts people’s content without properly crediting them!”

I have made this entire post explaining that’s wrong. Idrc if the post is too lengthy for you. Don’t talk shit if you don’t even have all the details.

Additionally, if you send me somethin about this in a negative light I’m IP blocking you. One strike and you’re out. If you want to believe people with false info and false accusations then that’s your baggage. Not mine.

HOWEVER if I’ve accidentally mis-credited, forgot to/messed up on crediting a person for their gif/video, or so on let me know! I’ll make mistakes, but I never do it intentionally.

[minnievirizarry]

Chatbots: Everything you might’ve missed in the last year

Humans are more prepared than ever before to handle a congested inbox, manage crises and personalize experiences for customers at scale. And it’s all thanks to our robot friends. It’s been over a year since we first launched support for Twitter and Facebook private message chatbots at Sprout and we’ve come a long way. We’ve seen over 1,000 chatbots built and deployed in our Bot Builder, received tons of feedback from our customers and spent a lot of time innovating to better compete in the market.

But most importantly, we learned a few things. With every new update, we discovered more about what brands really want from chatbots—and how they can better create connection with their audiences through bot interactions.

First: Even the most intuitive building experience won’t replace the need for a strategy. Most of the time, brands require a little inspiration to get started.

Second: Building a chatbot involves a ton of moving parts, and plenty of stakeholders. An interactive building experience is key—as is collaboration!

Third: What good is a chatbot if it’s disconnected from the rest of your social conversations? Without an integrated conservation management system and analytics to measure/optimize, your chatbot won’t last.

With these learnings in mind, let’s dive deep into how each lesson has played a key role in helping us continue to drive innovation in Sprout’s Bot Builder —and discover ways to take your bot workflows to the next level.

Optimize time to value with Bot Templates

With the growing adoption of chatbots over the last year, we’ve started to uncover why consumers use bots —and more importantly, why not. In fact, the most challenging part of building a chatbot is not the technical aspect; rather, it’s in crafting the content strategy. Many customers are bought in instantly and are excited to create a chatbot—but as soon as they get started, they stare at their blank screen and think: where do I begin?

Because of this, we felt it necessary to offer you a starting point. In studying the most common strategies and use cases, we’ve introduced a scalable way for you to easily build and share a preview of a chatbot experience using 1 of 4 pre-made bot templates. Choose either the customer care, marketing, e-commerce or content discovery template—and then quickly customize the messages so the chatbot fits your brand.

The templates are pre-built with best practices in mind so you can decrease time to value with each new chatbot you create.

Create sophisticated interactions

Sprout’s Bot Builder was designed with two key beliefs that still hold true:

Chatbots should aid in the human-to-human interaction, not replace it.

Automated conversations are best kept to private channels, where highly personalized experiences can be delivered.

Sprout’s Bot Builder empowers you to develop rules-based bots driven by commonly asked questions, specific themes or upcoming campaigns—all to help you save time and capitalize on more business opportunities happening across Twitter and Facebook.

To start, you’ll need to determine what types of conversations you want your chatbot to handle. Using our Conversation Map, you can lay out your options, for example: Shipping, Returns, Promotions, Support. Choose from a variety of message types for different interactions: plain text, images, GIFs or Call-to-Action Buttons. Make your chatbot more intelligent and allow it to cover more bases by setting up responses for specific keyword triggers such as responding when someone replies “help” or “talk to a human”. Easily reorganize and visualize your content flows with the interactive Conversation Map where you can drag-and-drop, pan/zoom and even preview the entire experience as you go. In an effort to be more transparent, you can start to humanize the interaction by adding typing indicators, emojis or your own custom avatar.

While one person can build the chatbot, it often requires an entire team to plan, assess and approve a bot experience. Given that a true chatbot conversation is dynamic and interactive by definition—a bit of a choose-your-own-adventure—in order to provide feedback it’s imperative that stakeholders actually experience the workflows themselves. Using Sprout’s external share links, users can more seamlessly collaborate with their team to get buy-in and to get content approved before ever setting a chatbot live. This helps to create alignment for your team and facilitates collaboration from ideation to deployment.

Integrated conversations to inspire relationships

Once users start engaging with the chatbot, your inbox can fill up quickly. These messages can crowd your inbox and lead to a lot of dead ends — not only for your customers but for your business.

For optimal management, ensure that your chatbot conversations are seamlessly integrated to your existing workflow. This means having the ability to prioritize, triage and respond to chatbot messages from the same platform that you use for all your social media management. Not only does this help to maintain context for ongoing conversations, but it works to establish future relationships.

The beauty of the Smart Inbox implies that you also get access to other tools like Tasking and Inbox Views that facilitate collaboration. This is especially important for larger teams who delegate responsibilities and need to uphold certain standards when responding to customers.

To deepen this integration, we’ve also identified additional features that are key to your productivity and are specific to chatbot management. To address a high-volume of messages, you can automatically mark chatbot messages as complete to keep them from clogging up your inbox. Used alongside auto-completion, auto-tagging bot messages simplifies the organization of incoming messages in your inbox and incorporates chatbot interactions into your existing tagging strategy.

All of these tools combined help streamline chatbot messages so that you can manage conversations more effectively, and ultimately convert bot users into customers.

Scale your chatbot

To reach a larger audience, you can create ads that lead users to an engaging experience with your bot. Rather than interrupt them with a traditional ad that’s highly transactional, ads that invite users into a private conversation with your chatbot make for a more dynamic and tailored interaction—one that doesn’t even feel like an ad.

Using an Ad ID string generated in Sprout, you can easily plug your unique bot workflow into Twitter Direct Message Card Ads or Facebook Click to Messenger Ads.

“Twitter Direct Message Cards generate personalized attention from a brand to untapped audiences,” says Rob Johnson, Senior Director of Product, Twitter. “With chatbots driving the conversation, Twitter Direct Message Cards can foster higher engagement and lower acquisition costs.”

Look at this recent case study with Samsung, for example. They were able to deliver personalized TV recommendations, increase engagement on their website and generate leads at a quarter of the typical cost with a private message ad supported by a chatbot. This makes it clear that chatbots have the ability to impact more than just the automated interaction itself.

Measure, digest and iterate

A fully integrated social inbox would not be complete without the ability to track performance. Within Sprout, users can leverage reports for Twitter and Facebook bots to measure bot message and conversation volume, performance, most engaged topics and frequently received user inputs that fall outside of your bot workflow. You can even go so far as determining drop off and conversion rates as interactions advance.

With access to data on volume and performance, it’s possible for businesses to gauge where users are finding the most value out of their bot experience and determine where they should be making updates. For example, if you learn that “How-To Tips” is the most clicked reply and that the other replies haven’t been clicked in the last month, you can adjust your content strategy to revolve fully around How-to Tips.

The bot report is also a great way to gain insight on user preferences and can help to inform overall business strategy. You should be using your chatbot as a way to collect information from customers to better understand their needs — and then adjust your strategy to accommodate.

Ready, set… automate!

With automation at the core of your social strategy, you will start to uncover more and more ways chatbots can be used to scale 1:1 interactions. Want to speak with someone on our team to learn how chatbots could benefit your team? Request a demo now. If you prefer to dive right in, sign up for a free trial to start building your first bot today.

This post Chatbots: Everything you might’ve missed in the last year originally appeared on Sprout Social.

from SM Tips By Minnie https://sproutsocial.com/insights/chatbots-in-the-last-year/