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.

  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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

  • Sooperstition@lemmy.one
    1·
    1 year ago

    Not a huge fan of the reddit repost bots when we can steal content the old fashioned way by right-clicking!

  • elxeno@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I block all post bots, i think they’re useless. Those on comments are fine, like the remindme, piped, link fixer, chatgpt, etc.