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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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[–] chairman@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am ok with bots as long as:

  1. The posts are labelled clearly as such that it's posted by a bot

  2. The account itself has some clear indication that it's a bot

By fulfilling this requirements, everyone can decide I'd they want to see these posts or block them.

*** I block some bots..

[–] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

I actually dislike posts that have a bunch of clutter in the title... It just makes it look fake.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Disagree with your first point. If the account itself is labelled as a bot then that's good enough. I'm mostly on Jerboa and it adds an icon next to bot accounts' usernames.

[–] fkn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's literally their first point. How do you disagree with it when you have and use it? What?

[–] ericisshort@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The distinction you are missing is indicating the post is from a bot rather than indicating the account is a bot. The difference in that distinction is that many Lemmy readers will not indicate anywhere on a post that it is from a bot simply because the account is labeled as a bot.