Hi all,

What’s your opinion on the repost bot in the AITA community? From my perspective, it provides little to no value to cross post such content from another website.

First of all, AITA lives off the comments and if there aren’t any, it’s not really entertaining to read the posts.

Second, if someone hypothetically replied here, it would never reach the OP on reddit, so it’s not meaningful to make the effort.

And last but not least, if there are sometimes dozens of reposts per hour here, it drowns any interesting original content on Lemmy.

So overall I guess it brings more harm than good.

PS: Originally I planned to post this in the AITA community directly but ironically it’s locked down to “mods only”. So there’s not even a chance to have there any original content.

Regards, rbn

  • TexMexBazooka
    82·
    9 months ago

    We shouldn’t really have to block a bunch of bots to make the platform usable

      • TexMexBazooka
        3·
        9 months ago

        I don’t want to disable bots, I want spam bots to stop degrading Lemmy

        • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
          11·
          9 months ago

          Like I said in another comment, it’s only like five. I’m not trying to excuse their behavior or anything, it’s just that a few blocks easily take care of the problem.