[PSA] Do you block all bots accounts? If yes, you might not see the daily thread from now on (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/casualconversation@lemmy.world

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Hello everyone,

Trying to assess how many people among us block all bot accounts using the "Show bot accounts" checkbox in the accounts settings. I got reminded yesterday that the LW rules ask for every bot account to be flagged as such, which is now the case for @mod_bot_995@lemmy.world .

As a consequence, if you block bot accounts, you might not see the daily thread from now on.

If that is an issue for too many people, I will look for a solution (the first coming to mind being moving the community to another instance).

As far as I am concerned, I understand the instance rules, for me it is more an issue with Lemmy technical limitations that do not allow accounts to schedule posts. Would that be possible in the platform itself, I wouldn't have to use that bot (and https://schedule.lemmings.world, a nice tool created by @rikudou@lemmings.world ) and the issue would be solved.

Let me know what you think!

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[-] ptz@dubvee.org 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't block them all via user settings (yet), but I've blocked every bot ive encountered so far.

I don't like or trust bot-generated summaries and prefer to read articles as the authors intended. It's also annoying to go into a post looking for a discussion and the only comment is from a bot.

Other bots are just obnoxious like the community link and piped link bots.

Then the repost bots that post stuff from the alien site just get a blanket ban.

I prefer for Lemmy to be a place for discovery and discussion, and I think it's better without all the noise and dead end posts from bots.

All that said, It's probably a risky position to rely on people not blocking bots. I also find it very impersonal and unworthy of engagement when a bot account asks how my day is going.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you for your feedback!

About the last paragraph, in my perspective it's basically the same thing as me asking it every day at the same time. The idea is to give people a place to share and discuss their day, which is the main objective of this community

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ouch, two of those bots are mine. Probably won't change your mind, but the auto tldr just analyzes the text and picks the sentences it thinks are most important - unlike most such bots it doesn't create the summary on its own, it just picks sentences straight from the article.

And the community link fixer helps by providing a clickable link for users.