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submitted 1 year ago by catboss@feddit.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

As the service grows, I have noticed more and more people and bots popping up, only posting links to a news article and that's that. Usually there is no post, no summary and nothing from the OP but the link.

What do you all think about this?

Do you think it's a good thing, because it is providing content? Do you maybe find it annyoing and if so, why?

I myself am happy when people take the time out of their say to try to provide content, but for me it's a bit low effort a lot of the times. Bots I tend to block immediately and people it they make it hard for me to reader other posts between all their link-posting.

But I am more curious how you all think about this and whether you consider it good or bad.

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[-] ElBarto@lzrprt.sbs 24 points 1 year ago

As long as they mark the accounts as a bot account it doesn't bother me, if it gets too much I can just turn on the don't show bot accounts check.

[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I used to run a news bot on my profile for my community, but some people PM'd me to mark my profile as bot. I also personally use my account so I don't want my other post/comments to be seen as bot activity; and my instance did not permit creation of a second account for the bot only, what should I do to keep the bot running without having my profile marked as bot?

[-] shrugal@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Imo we need to be able to differentiate between bot posts and comments. Posts can often be spamy, but comments are almost always useful.

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