this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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[META] So... about the bots (self.technology)
submitted 2 years ago by astropenguin5 to c/technology
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As some may have noticed, a fairly large portion of the post on this community are article links posted by bots. I am no moderator and am just a regular user like the rest of you, but I want to know what the community thinks of the posting bots. here is a sample of my opinion to get conversation started:

Pros:

  • lots of content to engage with
  • people can focus on discussing things not finding thing

Cons:

  • lack of reliable quality of article
  • lack of diversity of content
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[–] L3s 4 points 2 years ago

That's fair, my bot posts once an hour and checks it's own previous posts. That is actually something I did not write, but pulled from github.

I wrote something in Python for videos that I can convert to the tech community, that one does check all community posts and won't repost.