i saw a user with the (BOT ACCOUNT) flair.

how do i get that? i wanna be a bot account too…

    • impulse@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It means that you are a bot. For example like Reddit’s automod or all the Star Wars or Lord of the Rings quote bots or also unit converter bots.

      And it seems like the first people are already trying to misuse the label.

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        1 year ago

        succeeding at misusing the label.

        the first people are succeeding at misusing the label.

      • Mintyytea@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Do you have to do something special to truly make your account a bot? Like give it a function it can do as a bot? (I’m not trying to make this account a bot though)

    • poVoq@slrpnk.net
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      1 year ago

      It is just something you can add if you plan to make the account controlled by a script. I think the plan is to eventually add an option to ignore all bot posts, but AFAIK this doesn’t exist yet.

    • bloodfart@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      thank you so much!

      can’t wait to get more weird shit beside my name.