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[Lemmy.ca Discussion] What should we do about Lemmit.online (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TruckBC@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca
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@bot@lemmit.online has been subject to multiple reports from our users over the last while.

We would like the users' input on how to deal with it. It is the opinion of the administrators that @bot@lemmit.online, and @lemmit.online doesn't add anything positive and constitutes spam. We especially want to make sure we get feedback as we are more likely to be sensitive to bots like this and other forms of spam compared to most users as we'll often scroll through "All" sorted by new.

Here are the options.

Please vote by up voting on one of the comments below. Downvotes will be ignored. Additional comments and discussion is more than welcome. Results of this discussion will provide us guidance on how to deal with other bots in the future as well.

If you're not a lemmy.ca registered user, please refrain from voting but feel free to comment with your opinion.

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[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It seems odd to me that these are often discussed at a "server wide" level. If a community doesn't like the posts they can ban the user no? Shouldn't the Administrators try to focus on running the site and gross rule violating content and not be involved in random bots?

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem is that it can fill up the new feed for new users, so they end up seeing a ton of posts with no interaction on them.

I personally don't feel mass cloning of content from reddit over to lemmy, is going to help build a community. This isn't stumbleupon.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While that may be true, the New sort is doomed already since it's filled with shitposts from Lemmy itself. If this bot disappears it'll be just beans.

Does it post anything to lemmy.ca?

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Nope, I believe it's confined to communities on that instance.

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

That server has no users. Just the bot. So in tyhis case banning the server is effectively banning a single user. But also saves on resources when the lemmy.ca server doesn't need to fetch the posts that are blocked by a large percentage of the local users.