• Antik 👾@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I actually had a chat with the creator of this bot, @L3s@lemmy.world earlier today. I informed him that bots are only allowed when they are requested or approved by the community’s moderator. I believe the creator has good intentions and he seemed to understand why it would be a bad idea to simply copy unfiltered content. You should no longer see posts of this bot outside of the communities he has an approval for.

    On the other hand, I added lemmy.link to the banned instances as they were clearly just spamming, even posting TMZ ads. Their bot @linkbot@lemmy.link was also banned.

    So, wether or not bots are allowed that is up to the community moderators. As long as they follow the general rules on content moderation and they have the moderators’ approval.

    • Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, replying to your other messages, appreciate your work here, your work dealing with the hacker was way faster than I expected. It’s a little bit less than what I want, but then again, I did choose this instance because you guys seem the most reasonable and careful about making serious decisions like defederation, so I guess it’s about what I’ve expected.

      Anyways, for a community like this, where the sole mod appears completely inactive, it’s not great to have a bot running completely rampant. If you can, please have a talk about this with the maker of the ChatGPT bot about this rule too, because I’ve seen that bot running loose in the comments on a number of communities, even those it was not really appreciated in.

      Lastly, separate topic since I have your attention here, because the mods over at c/android have abandoned their positions and locked their community in favor of one on another instance despite the concerns of many of us here (some being quite vocal), and that there is still a demand since there are still activities in those threads even yesterday, I’d like to request moderating the abandoned c/android, since I was a fairly active participant when the community was active, and I’d like of think of myself as decently well liked on this instance despite my dumb shenanigans here.