World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

[meta] Repost bots

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World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Repost bots have turned sorting by new in this community into something worse than useless.

At Lemmy’s current scale, sorting subscribed communities by new is still one of the best ways to interact with the site. But the repost bots in this one community are generating a post volume which is on par with the entire lemmyverse excluding other “frontpage” style subs like tech/gaming, which means if you sort by new everything else is drowned out by this one community.
The post volume here has now has completely swamped the comment volume, and most posts have no discussion at all.
The world news bot is also a mod, so it feels dangerous to block them and potentially miss important mod communications.
The botit bot is reposting the same links in multiple news subs.

These repost bots aren’t jumpstarting the community, they’re smothering it.

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I want it to stop. Please, make it stop. Bots with (so far) 350+ posts and ~30 comments. No engagement, and it’s all just from /r/. If we want to see /r/, we can go there.

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