If a human posted every 5 min, got 0 upvotes for 20 posts straight, we would ban them for spam. If bots would limit themselves to posting once a day, or once a week, and only post the top-voted non-duplicate post of that timeframe, it would be a dramatic improvement. For once, we might actually see real-lemmy posts along side bot posts, instead of the community being exclusively bots (or 99% bot posts) or exclusively Lemmy users.

I would tell the bot creators myself, except I don’t know how to get in contact with them. Is there a consistent way to contact a bot creator?

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Those posts (or rather that ranking) is available already though as a sorting option, with timeframes for a day, week, month, year and all time (as well as 1, 6 and 12 hours). Why do you think a bot for this would be helpful?

    • jeffhykinOPEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Actually, that’s my point we CAN’T rank them.

      • on reddit for every 1 post there are 100 or 1000 lurkers voting/ranking the post
      • but on Lemmy: there are so many bot posts, that every 1 bot post has like 0.1 Lemmy users voting/ranking it

      It is totally impractical for us to correctly/effectively rank the absolute torrent of posts coming from reddit, and the result is that every high quality 1000-reddit-upvote post is surrounded by an ocean of straightup-spam 1-reddit-upvote posts.

      Real Lemmy posts in a community are completely drowned out by bot posts. I can’t even find real users posting in a community because there’s so many bot posts.