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Do we really need these many posting bots? (lemm.ee)

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

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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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[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh I know it's a joke. But now that we're here dissecting it (don't take me too seriously :) ):

The problem with the "don't want to appear dumb" premise is that if your friend is asking, and it's common knowledge, then you can simply give the answer to your friend because you're supposed to know the answer already. There is no need to "ask for a friend."

With porn, though, the premise is not lack of knowledge, but to appear nice and clean. If you ask directly "hey what's the link to that ass-to-elbow video?" you'll feel ashamed. But if "your friend" is asking, then hey, you're just the messenger.

Anyway. That was fun to type!

this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023

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