Some people seem to really enjoy the articles posted by the content bot, but others seem to think that the bot post too many articles and clog up their RSS feeds. Come give us your opinion in the straw poll.

  • fkn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I personally hate seeing tens of hundreds of articles without replies. If I wanted an RSS feed I would get one.

    • Gompje@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Same.

      As someone who uses the actual rss feeds, reading the same feed without interaction is just … a waste of time. Clutter. Annoying even.

      Like you said: I come here for the interaction and/or to find an interesting article someone found in a channel I’m unaware off. Not bot rss feed content.

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    1 year ago

    Lemmy and Tildes has really shown me how much more interesting information is when it’s given by a real person with some context or an opening post.

    A news article posted by a bot to… farm karma??? It’s just noise. Many of such articles posted have clickbait titles and comments under them tend to have less value and are based around uniformed opinions coming from the (often misleading) title alone.

    Quality aside, I guess I don’t really see the point. To who’s benefit are bot content posted? It feels like advertising to me. I’d like to think that the community are able to sustain itself by the content someone cared enough about to bother post it here.

    In short, bot created content is noise to me, while content posted by real persons has value.

    • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      I think it also depends on the rate of bot posts, when they post many posts within the same minute it’s just a wall of posts with little value, for example there’s 100 posts so each post will at most get 0-2 comments.

      If the bot instead adds a single post once a hour/day depending on how active the channel is it could be fine. Because then people have time to discuss each post.

    • DigitalWebSlinger@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I recall that L4s’ owner stated that the bot’s purpose was to “jumpstart communities”. Personally, having noticed how much it has posted, and what ratio of top posts belong to it over time, it’s achieved just that.

      I think it was a nice thing to have early on. But maybe its time has come.

      • L3s@lemmy.worldM
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        1 year ago

        I don’t disagree, I think L4s has done a good job here and have thought it might be time to pull the plug for almost 2 weeks now.

        My only worry is that it creates a gap in conversations (due to less posts here), which might slow or reverse some of the growth, but that would be inevitable no matter when we decide to do it.

        That’s why I think @[email protected]’s poll is a good idea, if the community thinks it’s time then let’s do it.

  • PopBobert@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    So far there are only 89 votes on this poll. I don’t think that represents the community very well when we regularly get posts with 1000 upvotes.

    • Riker_Maneuver@startrek.website
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      1 year ago

      I never saw this when it was new. I don’t know if it was ever pinned, but, if not, maybe that would have given this more traction due to visibility? I think post like this from just yesterday show it’s still divisive.

  • Die4Ever@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    maybe they should be going to a different community? similar to [email protected] or something

    maybe upvoted posts there could automatically be crossposted here? idk I agree the bots are annoying but I use the bot communities sometimes to look for something interesting to crosspost elsewhere

    or maybe all the links could be grouped into a daily post? but then people would likely ignore it entirely

  • phx@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    My client has an option to include content from bots, or not. Seems reasonable for people to choose

  • db2@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    … just block the bot if you don’t like it. It’s not complicated.