As some may have noticed, a fairly large portion of the post on this community are article links posted by bots. I am no moderator and am just a regular user like the rest of you, but I want to know what the community thinks of the posting bots. here is a sample of my opinion to get conversation started:

Pros:

  • lots of content to engage with
  • people can focus on discussing things not finding thing

Cons:

  • lack of reliable quality of article
  • lack of diversity of content
    • L3s@lemmy.worldM
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      1 year ago

      Yeah it’s a bit of a catch 22.

      I’m also a bit bias on the subject, as I run @L4s@lemmy.world here, but will take it down if we feel it’s necessary.

      • astropenguin5@lemmy.worldOP
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        1 year ago

        I think it’s fine for now personally, the only recommendations I would make to you and other bot creators are to add a thing to check that a link hasn’t already been posted, and maybe to decrease the frequency a bit.

        • L3s@lemmy.worldM
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          1 year ago

          That’s fair, my bot posts once an hour and checks it’s own previous posts. That is actually something I did not write, but pulled from github.

          I wrote something in Python for videos that I can convert to the tech community, that one does check all community posts and won’t repost.