Posts that arrive over time
Schedule posts to appear during the session behind a "new posts" pill. Delay agent replies so that they look like replies from people, not from bots.
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Schedule a post
Select the post. Set Appears to After entry. Then set the offset. In this clip, the offset is 20 seconds. The timeline shows the post under +20s, arrives later.
Before entry makes a post look older than the session. The readiness check shows a warning for a post scheduled after the segment ends, because no participant would see it.
Seed comments have their own time. The
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Hold replies back
On an agent account, Reply delay has a minimum and a maximum in milliseconds. After the agent writes a reply, the reply waits a random time between the two values.
Save the feed. Then push Deploy.
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What the participant sees
A new post does not move the feed. It waits behind a "1 new post" pill until the participant taps the pill, as in a real app.
The feed records when the pill appeared and when the participant tapped it.
The reply to a comment waits for the delay of the account. Then it appears below the comment.
The pill appears, the new post opens, and the reply appears some seconds after the comment.