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Rules of Use for Bots (self.lemmyworld)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by MrCenny to c/lemmyworld
 

As we see more and more bots on Lemmy World every day, it’s about time we publish a set of rules for bots and bot-owners.

So here goes:

  • Bots shall not be used for any kind of advertising.

  • The bot accounts must be clearly marked as a bot. Both in the bio and by marking the account as a bot.

  • The owner of the bot and contact details must be mentioned in the bot’s bio.

  • Bots are only allowed to post in communities they have the explicit permission from the community’s owners to do so.

  • Bots from other instances that post in Lemmy World communities must follow the same rules.

  • Bots shall not just be posting Reddit content.

  • Bots shall not be “spammy”, as in multiple posts per minute.

  • Breaking any of these rules will result in a ban for the Bot and, if required, its owner.

  • Commands must use the bots mention as prefix, and not a text prefix like !help

These rules will be updated when needed.

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[–] shotgun_crab 33 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I think we should prioritize useful bots over funny bots. Funny bots are fine if they comment on rare occasions, like the one that tells you when all the words on your comment are in alphabetical order. Also, having bots that react to specific commands is better imo.

[–] thessnake03 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of my favorite reddit bots was mlbcompare. You'd input two (or more) baseball player names and it would compare stats. There were a bunch of other parameters you could feed it; 1st season, specific years, games on Tuesdays, etc. Very niche, but very cool

[–] everythingsucks 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My favorite bot wasn’t a bot but was some guy who would comment “and my axe!”. I believe they were known as novelty accounts way back when.

[–] thessnake03 2 points 1 year ago

Like hell in a cell guy!

[–] Nihilistic_Mystics 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TheBenShapiroBot was funnier than the vast, vast majority of reddit.

[–] lagomorphlecture 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I never saw this one. What type of things did it say?

[–] tpyo 3 points 1 year ago

Would give a Ben Shapiro quote that's absolutely asinine when someone would mention his name (in subs the bot was allowed)

[–] TheBat 3 points 1 year ago

A compilation just for you:

I saw that you mentioned Ben Shapiro. In case some of you don't know, Ben Shapiro is a grifter and a hack. If you find anything he's said compelling, you should keep in mind he also says things like this:

This is what the radical feminist movement was proposing, remember? Women need a man the way a fish needs a bicycle... unless it turns out that they're little fish, then you might need another fish around to help take care of things.

~I'm~ ~a~ ~bot.~ ~My~ ~purpose~ ~is~ ~to~ ~counteract~ ~online~ ~radicalization.~ ~You~ ~can~ ~summon~ ~me~ ~by~ ~tagging~ ~thebenshapirobot.~ ~Options:~ ~covid,~ ~novel,~ ~civil~ ~rights,~ ~feminism,~ ~etc.~


By objectification of women, do you mean that there are actual standards of beauty and that there are many people in popular culture who we have been told are supposed to be seen as beautiful who are not objectively beautiful? Obviously that's true. Obviously that's true. If you polled men on whether Lizzo is beautiful--and I say Lizzo is not by any classical definition a beautiful person--that does not mean that that is objectification of women, that just means that there is a standard called beauty and it has meaning. -Ben Shapiro


Freedom is an invention of the last couple of centuries. It really did not exist en masse until the last couple of centuries--and even then, really only since the end of the Soviet Union has it been sorta the broad movement of the public across the world. -Ben Shapiro


If you like socialism so much why don't you go to Venezuela?


I saw that you mentioned Ben Shapiro. In case some of you don't know, Ben Shapiro is a grifter and a hack. If you find anything he's said compelling, you should keep in mind he also says things like this:

Let’s say your life depended on the following choice today: you must obtain either an affordable chair or an affordable X-ray. Which would you choose to obtain? Obviously, you’d choose the chair. That’s because there are many types of chair, produced by scores of different companies and widely distributed. You could buy a $15 folding chair or a $1,000 antique without the slightest difficulty. By contrast, to obtain an X-ray you’d have to work with your insurance company, wait for an appointment, and then haggle over price. Why? Because the medical market is far more regulated — thanks to the widespread perception that health care is a “right” — than the chair market. Does that sound soulless? True soullessness is depriving people of the choices they require because you’re more interested in patting yourself on the back by inventing rights than by incentivizing the creation of goods and services. In health care, we could use a lot less virtue signaling and a lot less government. Or we could just read Senator Sanders’s tweets while we wait in line for a government-sponsored surgery — dying, presumably, in a decrepit chair.

[–] problematicPanther 3 points 1 year ago

I particularly enjoyed when the various gnu/linux explainer bots would interact with each other, or when people get fooled by the Petrosian bot on anarchy chess

[–] Risus_Nex 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are Bots certainly dumb enough for good helpful instruments?

[–] Risus_Nex 0 points 1 year ago

I need to test this alphabetical bot. Never heard of it.