atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’ve got bots turned off. Mostly because organic conversation can and often is stifled by bots. The lack of the karma system doesn’t change that. Over-inflated posting and downvotes still abound here and people dog pile on that even though there isn’t a karma system reward. They still get a dopamine hit from upvoting/downvoting, and they still get one from seeing upvotes etc. So in that realm it doesn’t matter that an algorithm isn’t boosting some content. Not when people can use bots to drown out other people or whole discussions.
People have posited this idea before. The community generally doesn’t seem to like this idea.
11111one11111@lemmy.world 1 week ago
So if you notice the user push back from the oldest of the three posts to the newest definitely quieted down in the newest post. Also as multiple people and myself suggested is to allocate all the automation to itsnown accessible instance that users can pull from or block themselves same as it is now.
As for the issue with bot comments, I’m not suggesting to change anything thst would cause Lemmy to allow bot users comments. I 100% agree that would be the worst.
What I would most like to see is a solution to bring more content to the more niche communities that are obviously struggling to keep relevancy due to the low volume of active users not providing enough content in their own to keep these niche communities active.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 week ago
How do you plan to prevent bot user comments? I think that’s an important part of how this goes. Several users (including myself) have had hit and miss success with blocking instances. Block evasion is absolutely a thing here with users too. I really do want to understand what the plan is for implementation, if the communities and instances are going to be warned, and if this instance will have admins and moderators and most importantly tools to combat some of the problems I foresee from this.
11111one11111@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I dont know how they do it now but I assume there is something because I have oy seen a couple bot responses but they’ve were on point and not spam.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 week ago
An assumption isn’t good enough. If you want to implement this you’ll need a plan. It won’t be successful unless the community interacts with it.