As the service grows, I have noticed more and more people and bots popping up, only posting links to a news article and that’s that. Usually there is no post, no summary and nothing from the OP but the link.
What do you all think about this?
Do you think it’s a good thing, because it is providing content? Do you maybe find it annyoing and if so, why?
I myself am happy when people take the time out of their say to try to provide content, but for me it’s a bit low effort a lot of the times. Bots I tend to block immediately and people it they make it hard for me to reader other posts between all their link-posting.
But I am more curious how you all think about this and whether you consider it good or bad.
I don’t mind about people only posting news articles, so long as they actively participate to the discussion in the comments.
For bots as long as they identify themselves as bots then at least I can block them if they feel too spammy for me.
I’d prefer we just not have bots in the fediverse but that’s probably impossible
It would be up to moderators of individual communities to proactively ban bots. It’s not impossible, but it is unlikely that every community will have that level of moderation.