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tune(bot): extend cold-start stagger from 24hr to 7 days
24hr spread was too aggressive — ~10 new bufos/hr becoming eligible
caused bursts of 6 posts in 20 minutes. 7-day spread reduces to ~1/hr.
re-seeds bufos that haven't posted yet from the shorter window.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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bot/src/main.zig
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bot/src/main.zig
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/// Seed staggered last_posted timestamps for short-phrase bufos that have no history.
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/// Prevents a flood of first-posts when new short-phrase bufos are introduced.
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/// Each bufo gets a deterministic offset based on its name hash, spreading
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/// eligibility over 24 hours so they trickle in one by one.
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/// eligibility over 7 days so they trickle in one by one (~1-2 per hour).
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fn seedColdStartCooldowns(m: *matcher.Matcher, s: *stats.Stats) void {
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const now = timestamp(app_threaded_io.io());
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const spread: u64 = 24 * 3600; // spread new bufos over 24 hours
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const spread: u64 = 7 * 24 * 3600; // spread new bufos over 7 days
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var seeded: usize = 0;
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for (m.bufos.items) |bufo| {
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if (bufo.phrase_len >= 4) continue;
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if (s.getLastPosted(bufo.name) != null) continue;
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// skip bufos that have actually posted (last_posted in the past)
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// but re-seed bufos still waiting from a previous shorter stagger
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if (s.getLastPosted(bufo.name)) |lp| {
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if (lp <= now) continue; // already posted for real
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}
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const offset = cooldown.staggerOffset(bufo.name, spread);
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// set last_posted into the future so eligibility = now + offset + cd
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}
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if (seeded > 0) {
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std.debug.print("seeded cold-start cooldowns for {} short-phrase bufos (spread over {}hr)\n", .{ seeded, spread / 3600 });
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std.debug.print("seeded cold-start cooldowns for {} short-phrase bufos (spread over {}d)\n", .{ seeded, spread / 86400 });
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}
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}
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