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Good stuff 👍 Right now you’re using “can” and “should” which are somewhat vague. What happens if bots don’t do something they should?
Consider clarifying requirements using the following RFC-style language: "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL".
What about bots that exist to respond to certain words in comments like the many lotrmemes bots and wandering dwarf miner for deep rock galactic. I’m sure they’re getting close to several a minute depending on comment traffic on those instances, if this place ever gets Reddit size they’ll definitely be doing several per minute
The admins could throttle those bots down to reasonable posting levels and the meta around it could go from expecting an instant response to being “graced by their presence”. Something something art from adversity something something..
We don’t have to be a direct copy of Reddit, after all.
We don't have to be a direct copy of Reddit, after all.
What I don't like about statements like this is that it ignores the fact that Reddit was just an interface for people to produce content and experiences that they wanted.
We are on Lemmy because we want a different interface, not because we want different content/experiences.
If Lemmy is a direct copy of Reddit, it is because the people want it to be.
Personally, I'm on Lemmy because I want a different owner, not a different interface. I liked old reddit just fine. I left due to the monetization of the community.
Perhaps they could simply be rate limited to once every 60 seconds, and abandon some comments if the traffic is too high?
So that bot that goes around saying peoples lemmy links are wrong is against the rules.
The link-fixer-bot is really useful on mobile, I hope they can make an exception for this one.
Excellent. Bots can be helpful, but they should be few in number. Some of them would drive me crazy on Reddit. Like that stupid 'water is not wet' bot.
Love the bots no just reposting links to Reddit, I fucking hate that
Hi @[email protected] @[email protected],
I'm planning on launching a service soon that will allow users to quickly and easily create+run lemmy bots similar to automod. I've posted about it on the Lemmy Matrix before, but is there a best place to contact you all to ensure that as I open pandora's box, everyone is ready?
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.
Bots are only allowed to post in communities they have the explicit permission from the community’s owners to do so.
This one might be tough for people. But yeah these rules are very reasonable.
Great rules! Bots are vital, but can quickly become a disaster.
1 - What if the bot is simply advertising c/ommunities which are relevant to the content at hand? I remember there was a popular bot on Reddit which did this. I think it simply linked to other subreddits where the content was shared.
7 - What if we get a moderation bot like Reddit's u/AutoModerator?
Rule 4 seems like it would be an auto-ban for those bots that are going round correcting links or giving alternatives to YouTube and whatnot, since they post in whatever community they detect an infraction from.
Is my reading of that correct?
Personally I'm mostly annoyed by bots (especially those that make new posts), but people here have raised good questions.
Like regarding those bots that provide corrected links - is there an amputator-bot yet? - or automods...
I schedule regular posts to a community I moderate. Is this considered bot activity? I use a cron job/python script to log into my account and post something I manually wrote.
I would consider this as bot activity. I would recommend to create a bot account for this, to further clarify that this was automated in some way.
So no save video, remind me, or un-amp bots? These rules basically only allow for recurring post bots, nothing more complicated.