Is there an option to report accounts / comments? Are bots even forbidden? I’m with you, Reddit was a bot shit show and I’d love to see a space with zero bots. I think even the utility bots like unit conversion added very little value.
There definitely were good bots on Reddit - they were just drowned out by a million shitty ones.
Agreed. I was a long time lurker but I’m trying to contribute to conversations to help grow the space: bots don’t help grow the space; they only clog it up. If someone didn’t care enough to find a conversion formula or whatever, they probably don’t care that much about the result either. All of that right there would add up to a 3-4 comment string that added nothing.
Unfortunately, it looks like the wave of bots is inevitable. I think I’ll just end up sticking to the niche communities and yelling get off my lawn.
The SCP sub had a bot that would tag any relevant SCP articles that you mention in your title or in the comments. It was extremely useful for getting into the community.
For certain tcg/ccgs, some roleplay games with talent trees, even for Lego sets mentioned the bots on reddit subs were great ways to provide relevant context. There is most definitely a place for utility bots in modern social media, the difficult part is figuring out how to define a reasonable limit on that and how to enforce it effectively.
Yeah, they just popped up on the instance I’m on. Pending better suggestions, hit report.
