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  • Ral@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    I’m potentially in the minority here, but what drove me up the wall were threads on a very interesting original post, whose comments were just endless chains of puns and lazy jokes, rather than any actual discussion.

      • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        A few are, but I think most aren’t. It would be easy bot bait, but at the same time, it’s also fairly context-sensitive in a way that would let a fair few users pick up on someone being a bot or not.

        Although that doesn’t mean that you can’t have bots that are in on the joke.

  • Hedup@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Please take the time to read the rules and our policy on trolls/bots. In addition:

    • We have a zero-tolerance policy regarding racism, stereotyping, bigotry, and death-mongering. Violators will be banned.

    • Keep it civil. Report comments/posts that are uncivil to alert the moderators.

    • Don’t post low-effort comments like joke threads, memes, slogans, or links without context.

    I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

    • Thekingoflorda@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Hey! Look at that, all the words that where used in this comment where words!

      beep boop I am a bot, and this action was done automatically. If you want to contact the devs, no.

      • JesusTheCarpenter@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        I would say that some bots were useful. Like the one that would convert the units from “freedom” oned to ones that actually make sense (or the other way around).

        Also, I like the bot that summarized the article.

          • Phil@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0·
            2 years ago

            we’ve had calendar apps for years. I hated how that would litter comment threads.

            • dustojnikhummer@lemmy.worldEnglish
              0·
              2 years ago

              Nope. Remindmebot was easier, quicker and reminded you in the thread you were reading.

              If we can just use calendars, why do we have todo apps then?

              • Milady@lemmy.worldEnglish
                015·
                2 years ago

                “Remindme” type bots are a band aid fix. Can you imagine if instead, the app/website/service provided that ? I shouldn’t have to see what you save now should I.

                For the second point, mostly because nobody made an app that combined the two well and/or was popular. The “simple calendar” app let’s you create events AND tasks. I honestly don’t even get what you’re trying to get at with your second point.

      • hemko@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 years ago

        u/Thekingoflorda, I have found error in your comment:

        words that where [were] used in this comment where [were] words!

        You should know where to use ‘where’ or ‘were’, if you were not illiterate

        This is an automated bot. I do not intend to shame your mistakes. If you think the errors which I found are incorrect, please contact me through DMs!

      • JackFromWisconsin@midwest.socialEnglish
        01·
        2 years ago

        Hey!

        Look at that, all the words that

        where used in this comment where words!

        beep boop I am a bot that detects haikus, and this action was done automatically.

  • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    We’ll almost certainly have the same once someone develops an Automoderator-bot.

    Although it might be unavoidable. Some of them were handy for letting the users help keep a sub on-topic, by letting them vote spam posts to be removed before the moderators had time to get around to deal with reports, or saw those posts for themselves.

    Others, like Locationbot on /r/legaladvice might be to keep an archive of the post, so that users can read and comment on it, even after the original has been removed, but without them having to go and leave a link elsewhere.

    Both of those would be pretty handy for Lemmy as well as Reddit, and I would not be surprised if someone ended up making more of the same, sooner or later.

    Something that might be nice, is if Lemmy had a way for users to silently summon bots to a thread, so you didn’t have a bunch of threads that were just users summoning DownloaderBot, or setting a reminder for themselves.

    • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      We’ll almost certainly have the same once someone develops an Automoderator-bot.

      But unlike reddit, lemmy is FOSS and as such people could implement a feature to not count comments made by accounts marked as bots. So only comments (supposedly) made by humans count towards the comment count.

    • two_wheel2@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Maybe someone will find a way to mod or extend an instance in some way which removes the necessity to add a comment. Like a “pre comment alert” plugin. If Lemmy had some form of extensions api it would certainly be possible

  • heili@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Every time I would post something on Reddit and get all excited like someone has replied! Someone out there liked this! … Nope. Automoderator just replying with the rules again.

  • AskThinkingTim@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I’m using Lemmy on desktop. The option of Apollo on desktop would have been game changing for me. The advertisements were messing with my mind!

  • Cralex@lemmy.oneEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    We need an instance where every community is full of self-perpetuated botspam. Then every other instance can defederate from it.

  • sunshine@kbin.social
    0·
    2 years ago

    That bothered me less than whenever some thread got successful and a mod decided that their input deserved to be viewed as the top comment, so they pinned it to the thread. 95% of the time those comments had nothing to do with reddit moderation, just a normal comment that wouldn’t have even been upvoted if it hadn’t been made in sudo mode.

    • CynAq@kbin.social
      0·
      2 years ago

      They don’t have to behave the same way fortunately, like auto replying to every thread posted.

          • ChemicalRascal@kbin.social
            1·
            2 years ago

            The thing about automod comments is that they were, indeed, comments. As such, they showed up in your replies.

            So if you made a post, you’d get that message in a place you would expect to see content that you would actually want to engage with, that is, people discussing your post.

            So, in short, yes.

        • JesusTheCarpenter@lemmy.world
          0·
          2 years ago

          Brave for your to assume that people read the automod comments. I quickly learned to igbore it, it was a second nature for me to scroll past it.

          Than again, I never had any serious troubles with my posts or comments being moderated. Perhaps I was just not being a jerk which seems to get you very far (not already if course as some Reddits were nazis about their silly rules).

  • Mac@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    Theae comments are triggering me so hard. Lol

    Bots are spam. Yes, even the “useful” ones.

  • Falmarri@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    What really pisses me off are entire comment threads filled with “happy cake day!”. Like that adds anything to the conversation. There’s 1/365 chance that any comment is made on their anniversary. It’s not that rare when there’s hundreds of millions of people posting (or whatever smaller percentage actually post)

  • syndicate@kbin.social
    0·
    2 years ago

    I am also glad to no longer see those stupid reply memes that everyone felt compelled to use. “This” or “This is the way”. It gave me second-hand embarrassment. It seemed like no one could think to reply for themselves anymore.