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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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[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I really dislike them.

I thought bot posting may incentivate people to comment

When a bot posts the same gardian link to every news community and then do the same thing for the next article, it kills any chance for comment as the poster is never present in the thread. Example: soyagi@yiffit.net

Many are low grade scams. Example: This user screams scammer to me chouaty1@kbin.social

Others are just marketing spam. Example: This user is just a marketing bot posting over and over links to the same site. raven3312@kbin.social

[–] starlinguk@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I wish actual humans would also stop reposting shit. Karma farming is not necessary on Lemmy or Kbin.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is no karma on Lemmy, though. So they are appealing to good ol'fashioned spamming.

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

I mean.... There is... It's just hidden by the default UI. It's exposed in voyager... You have 904 comment karma for example (and no post karma).

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

Oh. Interesting. Well that kinda sucks.