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  • Hedup@lemm.eeEnglish
    1522·
    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.

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

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    • Thekingoflorda@lemmy.worldEnglish
      176·
      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.

      • hemko@lemmy.worldEnglish
        752·
        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
        201·
        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.

      • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Sweet jeebers, I hope this is comedy. I laughed, but 99+% of the bots roaming Reddit are nothing but a drag, and I hope there’s a way to block all bots here.

        • minimar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          I believe bot accounts actually have a ‘bot’ tag applied to them, so in theory, yes! Just has to be added.

            • minimar@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              2 years ago

              Haha, no worries. Either would work, really, lemmy/kbin could add it as an option, or somebody could make an extension/app to do it.

              • SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.netEnglish
                2·
                2 years ago

                Lemmy does allow you to set a user as a bot, and there’s a separate checkmark to only see posts from non bots as I recall

        • Himawari@lemmy.4d2.orgEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Thank you, jerry, for voting on Thekingoflorda.

          This bot wants to find the best and worst bots on Reddit. You can view results here.

          Even if I don’t reply to your comment, I’m still listening for votes. Check the webpage to see if your vote registered!

      • 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
              2·
              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
                014·
                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.

  • Falmarri@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    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)

  • sunshine@kbin.social
    22·
    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
      15·
      2 years ago

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

        • Kichae@kbin.social
          6·
          2 years ago

          It can be implemented directly, though. Like as a site feature showing a message above the comment form, not as a bot making posts.

          • ChemicalRascal@kbin.social
            3·
            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.

        • anaximander@feddit.uk
          5·
          2 years ago

          Honestly I think that’s just a failing of community ethos. It’d be nice to bring back the expectation that people make the bare minimum attempt to check the rules of a community they’re trying to participate in, and let moderators just assume that everyone has read the sidebar rules. If you haven’t, and you break a rule by accident… well, tough luck, you’ll get the same treatment as everyone else. Next time, read before posting.

        • 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).

  • AnonTwo@kbin.social
    161·
    2 years ago

    To be fair, if fediverse ever takes off, they’ll probably need those automods to prevent things from getting out of control.

    The potential loss of automods was also one of the things people were worried about with the API changes.

  • syndicate@kbin.social
    15·
    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.

  • Ral@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    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.

  • Cralex@lemmy.oneEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

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

    • jerry@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Hmm, it might ne fun to get all AI and chatbot creators together and build an instance. Be really good for tweaking interactions.

  • vaguerant@kbin.social
    7·
    2 years ago

    Semi-related, Wikipedia discussion pages used to be left blank, with a red link, unless there was actually discussion there. Now every article has a boilerplate article quality scale rating template, a notice about when to use or not use the discussion page, etc. pasted onto the talk page as soon as it’s created. I miss seeing a rare blue talk page link and going “I wonder what weird stuff people are saying in the talk page for Alex Kidd in Shinobi World.”

  • DirkMcCallahan@kbin.social
    5·
    2 years ago

    I didn’t necessarily mind the automod comments, but I did hate the fact that there was no way to disable them for subscribers of a sub. It got very obnoxious very quickly.

  • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    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.

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I hope that there’s lack of a need for auto-mod at Lemmy in the future, as I expect each individual community to be smaller.