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.
Not a huge fan of the reddit repost bots when we can steal content the old fashioned way by right-clicking!
I’m against it. Bots have poisoned other social media.
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
I wish actual humans would also stop reposting shit. Karma farming is not necessary on Lemmy or Kbin.
There is no karma on Lemmy, though. So they are appealing to good ol’fashioned spamming.
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).
I think it just gets annoying when you see bots posting the same article across multiple communities, or worse, other bots reposting the same story a few days later. I don’t want to keep scrolling past the same story for a week straight.
I am ok with bots as long as:
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The posts are labelled clearly as such that it’s posted by a bot
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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…
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.
That’s literally their first point. How do you disagree with it when you have and use it? What?
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.
