this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But then the bot serves no purpose but to push away new users who see only the bot content

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interestingly that's what I have observed too, and not just only on my community, but on others too. I think it may correlate with the too frequent posting too. For example my bot was ordered to post every 4 hours which can be overwhelming for the average lemmings fella here.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right; to my interpretation, a bot post won't convince anyone new to check out a community, and when someone does check out a community they see a series of posts regardless of how far apart in time they are, so the bot doesn't serve to pull in new people in any way

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hmm can agree with that logic. Thank you for sharing your input!