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Do we have a Bot problem? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Why does shitjustworks have so many bots? I see certain communities like this where brand new accounts just spam random images. I have a dozen new accounts blocked every day and it’s getting tedious.

What is their purpose?

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tagged bots can be ignored using a checkbox in your settings fwiw

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

these aren't tagged

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bots like that suck. :(

I don't know why people want to step in and break something people are running for free without every even glimpsing a profit for doing so.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

If you want a crackpot conspiracy theory: It's Spez paying for bots to ruin Lemmy. If he can't get rid of bots on his own platform, he can try to make the competition worse.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

"[X] Show Bot Accounts"?

Yes, you can uncheck it to ignore all bots. But then you also ignore useful bots like TL;DR, link converters and such.

It would be nice to have better control here, more fine granular. On the other hand, I'm not sure if we really need spammy bots like https://lemmit.online/u/bot and http://zerobytes.monster/u/bOt who mostly advertise for reddit.

Not only but also because, new lemmy users won't be aware how to control their settings, and be faced with an All-feed which consists of mostly bot posts with zero upvotes and zero comments. Then they leave and never come back.