I was thinking of creating a bot that took the RSS feed of album reviews from the Angry Metal Guy site and posted new album reviews to this Community. The site seems to post one or two a day on average.

But obviously, I’d like to hear people’s thoughts on this idea. Not everyone loves bots so I’d like to gauge community reaction before I just go ahead on do it.

EDIT: Upvotes and favourable comments are a good sign so I’ve created it. I did a dry run to store all the historical reviews so everything the bot posts now should be brand new. This also means you might not see a new post for the next 24hrs depending on when AMG next update.

If it misbehaves let me know! And if it’s awful or annoying I can easily disable it.

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Is it possible to convert the review content from html to markdown? For example automatically change <b>Arch Blade</b> to **Arch Blade** (-> Arch Blade).

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I’ve added <b></b><i></i> to the tags to be converted to markdown so that should be OK now.

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Nice, thanks!

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