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submitted 1 year ago by Cabeza2000@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

Every day I am noticing more and posts by bots.

At first it didn't bother me as I thought bot posting may incentivate people to comment but since this rarely happens and now I think they are just polluting the communities.

I know I can filter them but I wonder what is the general sentiment about this.

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[-] Thorry84@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's really annoying when bots steal content from smaller subs where the OP is asking an actual question. I know there is a good chance OP won't see the answers given anyways, but at least there is a chance when posting in the original thread. With a repost bot, there is 0 chance OP will see the answer. Why would I want to engage with that? It's a total waste of time.

Also repost bots were the scourge of Reddit, I actively blocked a lot of subreddits because they were mostly repost bots. With the lack of karma on Lemmy, I hoped the bots would stay away. But alas, it is not so.

I also hate the obsession with Reddit on Lemmy. People have said before, it's like going on a date and talking about your ex the whole time. Stop talking about Reddit, don't setup bots to blindly repost shit and forget about the whole thing.

We need to make Lemmy a success by making it an engaging place, with good content and good people. So get to posting, voting and commenting.

There are actual good bots, but they don't usually post, only comment. The TL;DR bot is a real nice feature to have, especially when the source is a news site with so much ads and crap I can't read the article. Reddit repost bots should be banned imho.

this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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