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And the invation of bots has commenced. How donwe best deal with users like this? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by neo2478 to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Is there an option to report accounts / comments? Are bots even forbidden? I'm with you, Reddit was a bot shit show and I'd love to see a space with zero bots. I think even the utility bots like unit conversion added very little value.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Agreed. I was a long time lurker but I'm trying to contribute to conversations to help grow the space: bots don't help grow the space; they only clog it up. If someone didn't care enough to find a conversion formula or whatever, they probably don't care that much about the result either. All of that right there would add up to a 3-4 comment string that added nothing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately, it looks like the wave of bots is inevitable. I think I'll just end up sticking to the niche communities and yelling get off my lawn.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

The difficult part about that is, the way Lemmy is designed to easily integrate any custom client also allows bots to be made even easier. Only way to really do it would be by restricting the API, and with it, a lot of the freedoms of Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The SCP sub had a bot that would tag any relevant SCP articles that you mention in your title or in the comments. It was extremely useful for getting into the community.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I always found it funny when Marvin would go rogue and appear outside the SCP sub (which wasn't supposed to happen). Perhaps he was an SCP himself 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There definitely were good bots on Reddit - they were just drowned out by a million shitty ones.