I know that some users block bots because they consider them annoying, be it repost posts or features bots such as tldr or piped. Having the bot labelled as such prevents the daily threads from being viewed by users who might be interested.

I had that reasoning in the past, but had the bot banned for not complying with the instance guidelines.

I thus open this thread to see what could be done to solve this issue. Could there be exceptions to the bot labelling guidelines in this kind of cases?

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[–] breadsmasher 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bots are bots. If I want to filter them I should be able to.

Manually create the threads as a user if you want to enable everyone to see it

[–] Bl4ze -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is the limit between a bot and a user?

If I create the post using a script on my computer, is that a bot, or a user?

Should I hire someone to press the post button everyday to make it a post from a user?

[–] slazer2au 1 points 1 year ago

If you press the submit button = User

If you tell something else to press the submit button = bot