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submitted 1 year ago by rbn@feddit.ch to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Hi all,

What's your opinion on the repost bot in the AITA community? From my perspective, it provides little to no value to cross post such content from another website.

First of all, AITA lives off the comments and if there aren't any, it's not really entertaining to read the posts.

Second, if someone hypothetically replied here, it would never reach the OP on reddit, so it's not meaningful to make the effort.

And last but not least, if there are sometimes dozens of reposts per hour here, it drowns any interesting original content on Lemmy.

So overall I guess it brings more harm than good.

PS: Originally I planned to post this in the AITA community directly but ironically it's locked down to "mods only". So there's not even a chance to have there any original content.

Regards, rbn

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[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago

I thought I wanted it but ended up blocking it because I didn't want to engage with the content.

[-] RealM@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

No thank you, AITA is a toxic guilty pleasure, that I want to seek out actively if I'm in the mood for it, not see it on my feed regularly. It is the worst kind of form social media can take. If I see it anywhere on the fediverse, I'd immediately block it.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago
[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don’t mind bots in general, the HNs bot can be annoying but sometimes it has something. A ouldn’t mind a few art centered. But I was glad when I left AITA behind, it’s so toxic!

Is that .world? I must be defederated from it

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

I can see the obvious problems with a repost bot reposting things without contemplation but one thing I would like to point out is that the comments in the AITA threads are often not likely to reach OP anyway. They get into the thousands and OP doesn't read all of them, of course. I think they act more as a hypothetical discussion amongst the commenters, primarily. Which I think is really interesting on its own. I think discussing even hypothetically who would be at fault in such a scenario (especially considering many of these stories are obviously fake to begin with) has become the main point in the main attraction of the subreddit.

That said, I don't think we need bots. Not for that kind of thing. I feel like anyone can post hypothetical scenarios in many communities, and we'd get good discussions and insights.

[-] Tatters@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago

I accept everything you say, but I am still subscribed to it and read it a lot, even gasp following the Reddit link to the replies. Someone help me please with my addiction.

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[-] ZenkorSoraz@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If it gets people to comment go for it commenting and posting would basically be voting with your feet people who are complaining are likely already generating content in technology science ect in those topics reddit reposts aren't necessary.

[-] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago

I think repost bots would be really good for QnA communities whose answers are relevant even after a while. Examples of such communities in my sphere would be r/askscience, r/cscareerquestions, etc. That would increase lemmy's use quite a lot imo.

[-] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

It wouldn’t. Repost bots are a plague that drive off actual engagement

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