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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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[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

How do we know that they are bots ?

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 2 points 1 year ago

If they're well-behaved bots, there's a "bot user" flag the creator would set on the lemmy profile/settings page. That's the available in the API and usually shows up as a B tag on the web UI (hovering says bot iirc) and a robot icon in many of the apps.

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

Because they often have “bot” in their name to make it clear.

[-] NiftyBeaks@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I'm fine with bots posting news articles, but there are other communities I'm seeing that are basically 100% bots now and it is just annoying to see.

[-] Xideta@ani.social 1 points 1 year ago

I feel it makes sense for a few communities where the main activity isn't reading or commenting, but rather only looking at images. That said, a bot won't see how well different kinds of content they post do, so they can (and do sometimes) keep posting low quality/effort, spam, marketing disguised as articles, etc.

[-] mrbonejangles@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

There is a bot somewhere down the feed posting a comment from reddit complaining about there being to many bots lately.

[-] fucker@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

What's the difference between bots and people manually reposting content? Also didn't lemmy.world ban repost bots?

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