As the service grows, I have noticed more and more people and bots popping up, only posting links to a news article and that’s that. Usually there is no post, no summary and nothing from the OP but the link.
What do you all think about this?
Do you think it’s a good thing, because it is providing content? Do you maybe find it annyoing and if so, why?
I myself am happy when people take the time out of their say to try to provide content, but for me it’s a bit low effort a lot of the times. Bots I tend to block immediately and people it they make it hard for me to reader other posts between all their link-posting.
But I am more curious how you all think about this and whether you consider it good or bad.
I hate it. Some communities just fill up my feed with links to news articles with zero (or zero quality) comments. I either unsubscribe from these communities, or block the poster. In some cases they are so frequent, and with images that are effectively advertising. That and the zero comments, they just remind me of Reddit ads. I don’t think you can hope to build a community by drowning out any discussion with a flood of posts from news sites. If you’re the mod of a community with so little interaction, then you should be curating content and adding comments yourself.
Bots that repost suck and the trend needs to stop
I absolutely dislike “repost bots”. I prefer communication with real people.
I guess we all do, but as of now, we have to choose between lack of content or some bot content
Lemmy, like Reddit, operates like a link aggregator, so news article spam sorted by type into sublemmy’s is sort of its “natural state”. IMO there’s not really anything wrong with it, because it’s a good way to get conversations started.
I don’t really like the lemmit.online bot that just reposts “archive” posts from Reddit.
I don’t really like the lemmit.online bot that just reposts “archive” posts from Reddit.
Yeah, that was just depressing - we’ve moved on and it felt like it was trying to drag us back again.
My main issue is title formatting. I don’t dislike the TIL bot, but I do dislike the long title being cut off in my app.
I don’t mind it, as long as they’re keeping it relevant to the communities they’re posting in. There’s a couple I’ve noticed that don’t seem to respect the intent of the communities too much, but most of the bots I’ve seen seem to be pretty well-curated so far.
There’s a voting system. That should give you an idea of whether they’re considered good or bad and of their visibility in general.
Hopefully a lot of the bots are a stop-gap measure while the user base develops.
