I have never seen a bot that does good. Got sick of them on reddit and other sites. So when I see it here which is my safe haven. I will downvote or report it because it has not place here.
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xmunk@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Some people are pissed that the format is spammy? That’s the complaint I’ve heard.
I’d certainly prefer something like post tagging/labels but within the current feature set of lemmy I think it’s about as good as it could be.
Don_Dickle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
mp3@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Or you can just block it to hide it…
Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s what I said and was down voted for it. Oh well, that’s life on lemmy.
Don_Dickle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Fuck that…not getting on admins or anything but sites need to get rid of bots unless they pay the site. And also get rid of clickbait shit that I saw on reddit but not here yet.
Bob_Robertson_IX@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So, because you don’t like bots, they shouldn’t be made available to others who appreciate them? Fuck that.
The beauty of Lemmy is that you are in control of what you see, but that makes that you have to control it. Stop trying to dictate that I can’t have bots from instances that allow them.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 months ago
mp3@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
The bot is made by the instance admins themselves, so don’t expect the bot to go away.
tyler@programming.dev 4 months ago
The bot was literally added by the instance admins. You think they should pay themselves???
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I like the converts to metric bot on Reddit
Carrolade@lemmy.world 4 months ago
!remindme 1 week
Pika@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
out of personal curiosity, are you seeing this with the bots setting turned off? I thought that setting was a universal setting that just hide all bot posts for the account
Don_Dickle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yes I always turn the bots off whenever its offered.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 4 months ago
That’s my gripe with it. Its single comment fills the entire screen of my phone when scrolling past and it uses gigantic font, a big separator line (?), and links mixed with text mixed with more links.
Additionally, it fucks with the “new comment” and “hot” sorting, depending on how active Lemmy is at the time, by spamming post after post with a comment even though there is no actual discussion happening.
NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You should use a client that supports all of the text formatting. On Voyager the bot’s comment is smaller than most when collapsed (which it is by default).
Alteon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah, I’m not changing my entire client that I’ve gotten used to just to deal with a single bot that annoys me.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And because it uses spoilers, when I click it to collapse the comment, it just expands
AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 4 months ago
What client do you use? It looks fine in Thunder. (I agree it’s spammy in general, but not because of the formatting.)
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Pika@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
It’s broken on Eternity as well, it looks like thisScreenshot_20240809_023020_Eternity
AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 4 months ago
I wonder if other spoiler tags work in Eternity or if there’s something about the way this bot posts that breaks it.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 4 months ago
I’m using Sync and this is how it looks:
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AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 4 months ago
Like I commented above, I wonder if other spoiler tags work in Eternity or if there’s something about the way this bot posts that breaks it.