I don’t think I’ve encountered them yet, but if they’re like any other comment bot from Reddit, that’s gonna be a no from me. They’re super annoying and don’t add anything of value to a human conversation.
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2025
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Should we rid Lemmy of them? If so, what's the best method?
At least on the lemm.ee website there’s a box you can uncheck to see/hide bot accounts since during the great Reddit exodus when Apollo (et al) shut down my feed was flooded with Reddit linked posts which wasn’t bad but there was no comments which is usually what I like to read
I never met a bot I didn’t block. Maybe one day I’ll find one to be useful.
I enabled the setting to hide bots in my user config. They're annoying wastes of space on Reddit and the few I've seen here are the same.
What do you think motivates people to implement them here?
I've noticed a new news bot in the last few days, and it's the only one that seems good so far. It posts links to news articles, but puts a short summary under it too. I find that to be a lot more helpful than the bots, and even the users, who post a headline and a link, then nothing else.
I like the one(s) that bring(s) in posts from Hacker News since they have a high likelihood of being interesting, and I like seeing what the people of Lemmy think of them. Other than that, I don't think I've seen any others that add value to my Lemmy experience.
Can you give an example of a bot's username that does that?
They should be banned from the platform.