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[META] So... about the bots (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by astropenguin5@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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As some may have noticed, a fairly large portion of the post on this community are article links posted by bots. I am no moderator and am just a regular user like the rest of you, but I want to know what the community thinks of the posting bots. here is a sample of my opinion to get conversation started:

Pros:

lots of content to engage with
people can focus on discussing things not finding thing

Cons:

lack of reliable quality of article
lack of diversity of content

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[–] DrQuint@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They make it so I can't subscribe to this community as they will fill the ever living exultation of my feed. Too many.

But I'm not saying remove them.

[–] L3s@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just wanted to let you know incase you are not aware, you can uncheck "show bot accounts" under settings, as long as the bot is marked appropriately you will no longer see bot posts.

We are listening to the input here, and will have a discussion around the topic.

[–] 4815162342@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One problem I can see there is that bots will likely sometimes post good articles that are worth seeing. If you block the bots then you don't see those.

[–] L3s@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah it's a bit of a catch 22.

I'm also a bit bias on the subject, as I run @L4s@lemmy.world here, but will take it down if we feel it's necessary.

[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's fine for now personally, the only recommendations I would make to you and other bot creators are to add a thing to check that a link hasn't already been posted, and maybe to decrease the frequency a bit.

[–] L3s@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That's fair, my bot posts once an hour and checks it's own previous posts. That is actually something I did not write, but pulled from github.

I wrote something in Python for videos that I can convert to the tech community, that one does check all community posts and won't repost.