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  • It’s doing extra work and allowing other people to dictate how we use our space, for people that are going to break the rules anyway.

    !lemmydirectory@lemmy.dbzer0.com has been running on this philosophy for ten months now. The sidebar even says:

    Our community has bots making regular posts showcasing best content from communities in given categories to help promote them. Each category is assigned to it’s own bot to allow users blocking posts from unwanted categories and tailor the feed for their preferences without the need to block the whole community. Here’s the current list of bot accounts:

    Yet look at all of Best_of_ai_bot’s posts. Immediately and heavily downvoted every time. The people doing this won’t care, and use the tags to target content.



  • It’s been going on for a while now on !lemmydirectory@lemmy.dbzer0.com. The sidebar even says:

    Our community has bots making regular posts showcasing best content from communities in given categories to help promote them. Each category is assigned to it’s own bot to allow users blocking posts from unwanted categories and tailor the feed for their preferences without the need to block the whole community. Here’s the current list of bot accounts:

    I’m not sure how much clearly marked posts are going to help the problem. I feel like the people browsing through all are targeting the content and won’t ever see the sidebar.