Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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Lemmy has a setting to hide bots globally if you'd like. Most of the reposts are done by just a few bots and yes I agree they serve no purpose but to spam content nobody cares about, thankfully it's easy to fix.
I saw a post from the mod of a sub that has a bot post a "how are you today?" post every single day...
They were doing a PSA saying if you're blocking posts by bots, you won't see their daily spam.
Like yeah bub, that's the whole point of being able to block that shit. It's not a big, it's a feature
More like a big feature.
Sorry couldn’t resist
I am glad you made that comment and you should not be sorry ; it's a good joke and the person to whom you wrote that should have read again before sending the comment.
Of course the error is bug instead of big.
To be fair, at least that kind of bot post starts organic discussion and engagement within the community. The bad ones are the bots reposting reddit content like AITA where the OP will never see the comments anyway.
Yes, that's me.
It seems fair to warn users as I had moved from posting the daily post myself to using a bot, that some of the people interested in that daily thread would not see it if they blocked all bots.
Anyway, if you find it daily spam, just block the community and move on.
You would still have to block it if I posted that thread myself.
No, no, you see Lemmy Bad, Actually. \s