People complaining about the bot are worse than the bot itself. Every comment thread or post about it (probably including this one) inevitably turns into people debating the bot’s usefulness.

If you’re someone who hates the bot, do what everyone has already said 10 trillion times: block it.

All the comment threads and posts by users wanting to “take it down” solve nothing. Just stop. It’s so irritating having to scroll past millions of comments of the same tired debate.

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
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    30 days ago

    I don’t use the comms where this bot pops up (for unrelated reasons) so I’ll comment the following as an external observer.

    May I be honest? I think that both sides are being muppets.

    People defending that bot are mostly saying two things:

    • “jus hide all botz in u’re profile lol lmao” - asking people to throw the baby out with the dirty bathtub water, given that plenty other bots are desirable;
    • “if u dun liek it than fuck off block it lmao haha” - extremely short-sighted, as annoyances don’t happen only once, and if people need to block bots to make Lemmy usable they’ll simply leave.

    You are not solving the problem, you’re just knee-jerk reacting to the other side’s whining. I don’t need more than a quick glance at the bot’s profile to know that the bot is bloody hated by the users. This shite should be fixed or ditched, because as it stands it is not doing what a bot is supposed to do, to provide desirable functionality to the users.

    People complaining about that bot: the group above might be knee-jerk reacting to your whining, but you’re still regardless whining, like a herd of redditors and unlike decent people. If it’s clear that your complains are falling into deaf ears, pack up your things and leave, nurture competing communities without that bloody bot.

      • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
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        30 days ago

        I think that this goes for both sides - there should be plenty people like you, who like it and don’t upvote it, as well as plenty more people who dislike it but aren’t downvoting it.

        (I typically vote on bot content because it’s useful as feedback for the maintainer, as well as helping with post/comment sorting.)

      • Transporter Room 3@startrek.websiteEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Then you’re missing out.

        You can do both. Sometimes at the same time!

        And most likely without some kind of smug sense of superiority over helldivers 2 players of all things like the other guy.

        • undefined@links.hackliberty.orgOPEnglish
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          30 days ago

          Sorry if my shortened comment felt smug to you. I originally starting explaining that while gaming I oftentimes get frustrated and want to reprogram the game rather than play it, but I was distracted so I shortened it quickly. No offense intended.

  • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I’m surprised we haven’t seen an alternative news community on another instance than Lemmyworld and lemmy.ml emerge as an alternative without such bot.

    Seems like the LW mods/admins don’t want to change their opinion on the bot, so the expected reaction would be to see people leave those communities for others.

    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I did but that doesnt remove the comment counter for the bots comment from the post feed. So i think there is something to engage with but nope, just the shitty bot that serves no actual purpose to begin with. Nobody double checks and audits the bot so its completely worthless.