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
Hate repost bots, if you want to use one as a back-er-up-er-er it should post to a dedicated community intended to be an archive, not the main communities for a topic, they are practically spam and don’t promote any conversation in the comments as people avoid commenting on something that has zero connection to the original poster of the question.
a dedicated community intended to be an archive
That’s the intention of lemmit.online, but it leaks. It should just be a stand alone instance not federated to anywhere else.
Disagree. If it’s tagged as a bot account, you can ignore it. You can block the community, instance, individual bots.
While I don’t like them, other people do. This isn’t a community where staffers currate, it’s a place of free federation. By joining Lemmy you agree to use your time to curate your own content.
Sure. Only this is not content - it’s just spam.
I find it very hard to believe there’s a single user that finds any value in reposting /r/AITA posts. Without the comments the questions have no value as content.
I 100% agree, for me. But while I find it hard to believe, some people may want it. They may run their own instance and subscribe to archive the content. They may just like to read it. I have no idea how crazy people are. All that being said, I’m in favor or separate archive communities.
Interesting timing with this making All yesterday. https://lemm.ee/post/10568520
That’s not an /r/AITA post.
Additionally, you’ll notice that the post that hit all is a cross post from an actual user. The original post from the bot has no upvotes and no comments.
IMO, this is really just evidence that the bot is counter productive.
Oh good catch, and point.
Repost bots are universally dogshit and should be forbidden.
News reposts can add value.
Absolutely Fucking not, full stop. Not indiscriminately spamming everything posted on Reddit with no user interaction, it makes the fediverse look dead
If you wanna repost shit that’s fine, but not 10k posts at a fucking time
Manual posts are fine. Not bot posts. If I wanted to see every news article, I’d just go to a news site or use an RSS reader. Not every news article needs commentary, and not every news article is interesting enough to warrant being posted here.
If the content feed is what’s valuable and can be reposted to Lemmy, it gives people one less reason to stay on Reddit.
No it doesn’t. Comments and engagement are what drives communities and the bots kill that. Someone pops in from Reddit, sees nothing but shit from Reddit? They’re gonna go back to Reddit. It’s fucking asinine.
This, 100%. I’d rather see 10 posts with a bunch of comments than 150 posts with no comments.
I can get news anywhere.
Especially with the frequency that these repost bots post, it’s just drowns out real posts and makes lemmy look like a bot farm.
Repost pots are kinda my personal hatred on Lemmy, my block list is ridiculous
Yeah not a fan of it for all of the reasons you stated.
I don’t even like the AITA subreddit. It’s precisely that kind of validation that annoys me the most of a social community. In the case of /r/AITA, it’s just so “on your face”. People rarely will tell the truth about their topics, even when they do, why go so harsh about themselves? Why not ask “Am I wrong here?”, "Am I committing a mistake?, “Will I regret this?” instead of a “Am I the asshole?”. Don’t you think very self-entitled people will come and tell you “fuck yes! YATA”?
Ah, anyway, no, bots that can crosspost from other communities shouldn’t be allowed. We also shouldn’t try to replicate every successful/popular community, especially if it’s a toxic one.
I encourage stealing from these communities: aww, askhistorians
I discourage stealing from: any of the innumerable fake story subreddits.
I’m not a fan of reposting AITA content. The fun is in the comments, which you don’t get here.
I blocked that whole community because of that bot. I kind of get the impulse, but it’s swamping any attempt at useful discourse with layers of shit.
I just block repost bots. It’s funny how that sentence has different context now.
I don’t think I like the idea. I’ve come across too many posts elsewhere that describe strategies for using AITA, JUSTNOMIL, etc., to get enough karma quickly to enable new alt accounts to post elsewhere on Reddit where minimum Karma scores are enforced. I don’t want fake shit here even if that means we have less content.
Absolutely and these posts dont get much replies, why would I reply to a bot instead of OP. The bot wont reply and won’t know anything about the original.
I don’t really get the appeal of AITA and other places like it. The whole constant complaining on the Internet thing is… what’s a better word for “fuckin wack”? Like just touch grass.
I don’t mind bots in general, the HNs bot can be annoying but sometimes it has something. A ouldn’t mind a few art centered. But I was glad when I left AITA behind, it’s so toxic!
Is that .world? I must be defederated from it
I think the problem is a community full of bot reposts basically guarantees there will be no original content posted on Lemmy, which is what we really want.
r/bestof style of community could work, where the stuff is curated reposts and not straight up garbage
Most/all Reddit repost bots are bad imo
- Fizz ( @Fizz@lemmy.nz ) 4•1 year ago
I thought I wanted it but ended up blocking it because I didn’t want to engage with the content.