hot take, mods should look into cracking down on baseless bot accusations. it’s dehumanizing and more often intended as an insult, akin to the r-slur, than an actual concern.

(except in occasions where there is actual evidence of bot activity, obviously. but there never is.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've been guilty of this, but do get how it's a bad thing. It's like calling people NPCs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

exactly

[–] h3rm17 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Bot and troll both, people love to throw those around.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

troll accusations i can live with because trolls are human and absolutely deserve getting dissed when they do pop up

calling someone you disagree with a non human entity? just feels icky and pathetic

[–] h3rm17 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but calling someone Russian troll just for not agreeing with their opinion is a bit shit. Or asking questions, suddenly thou art sealioning. As if everything and everyone was using weird mind techniques to manipulate them on the internet (I guess it happens, though, but after being called a russian troll several times on lemmy, I figure the amount of real trolls may be way less than it seemed at first)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

this is fair. i usually just dismiss them in my mind as incredibly chronically online users, block and move on. buy yeah i get you.

the sea lion one especially like the barrier for entry on that is like 2 questions that can’t be googled and suddenly im getting “arf arf” gifs sent at me. 💀 that said i don’t personally think mods need to crack down on these users unless there is a larger patter of abuse