• m-p{3}@lemmy.caEnglish
    27·
    7 天前

    Personally I don’t mind it too much, as long as

    • there’s no vote manipulation to artificially boost the post
    • there are genuine interactions in the comments
    • the account posting this is properly labelled as a bot account (if it’s an actual bot)
    • GardenGeek@europe.pubEnglish
      3·
      7 天前

      Looking at this specific accounts history it seems as if its a regular poster (with a bit controverse ethics about content creation if you will) and as if OP has just labeled the account to be a bot.

  • soratoyuki@piefed.zipEnglish
    29·
    7 天前

    All of those posts are heavily upvoted and have multiple comments though? Accreditation, etc. are all valid critiques, but I genuinely don’t understand why so many people care about the provenance of posts.

    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      14·
      7 天前

      I post pictures of bread I bake and I’m on the upper lower middle side of mid for my baking skills.

      If someone picks the best bread on a subreddit with a million members my posts will be buried instantly so what’s the point in adding real content?

      • soratoyuki@piefed.zipEnglish
        12·
        7 天前

        I think that’s a bad analogy for a few reasons. First, all the examples you’ve posted are specifically meme template-friendly subs, which makes sense since they’re inherently easy to repost. I don’t think think a baking community would have that problem. But even if it did, you could just start a new baking community that bans reposts? Given how unpopular repost bots are, I assume your anti-repost baking community would be more popular than the hypothetical pro-repost baking community that your posts are buried in. Assuming that repost bots are drowning out more organic content, which prima facie doesn’t seem to be the case in either community you screenshotted as examples. Both seem like pretty solid examples of their being no other content.

        Structurally speaking, up and down votes should ideally, roughly sort posts by quality. A post being buried (unpopular) in a community isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

        If fear of not getting enough internet points is what’s keeping someone from posting, that’s more on them.

          • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            5·
            7 天前

            You’re not battling anyone for engagement because you’re not posting anything yourself. All you can offer is hyptheticals with no supporting evidence.

            Why don’t you go hang out in /askscience or /askhistorians with Portnou if you want all organic content. He and his multiple personalities are posting there dozens of times per day and those communities are just popping off with content and activity.

              • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                4·
                7 天前

                Upset that your daily screenshots of the mod log aren’t getting much engagement? Perhaps you’re jealous that your reposts from /r/news aren’t getting as much traction as time2lose’s reposts? What engagement are you generating other than your current crusade against this specific user?

                Edit: its also interesting that not only have you started a crusade against users for posting content that you don’t agree with (even though you don’t hold yourself to the same standard as evidenced by all your own reposts), but you’ve also started a community for you to start a crusade against mods for making decisions that you don’t agree with. There seems to be a pattern here where everything revolves around you and everyone needing to meet your demands.

              • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
                4·
                7 天前

                kinda wierd for someone with a yr history that only posted a few things early on and then a few more 3 months ago who then also is on so unoften he does not recognize your handle to make this statement about your user. had to tag that.

      • NathanRanch@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        7 天前

        The canary sings despite the cage. You don’t have to sing to anyone except for when you want to

      • odelik@lemmy.todayEnglish
        0·
        7 天前

        That’s a very fancy way of saying, “I bake the middest of mid bread.” And I approve

    • NotAnOtter@lemmus.orgEnglish
      1·
      5 天前

      I’m new to this platform and not finding that in the community or general search. How do I access that?

    • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
      9·
      6 天前

      I like to frequent HackerNews for some of the discussions there, but… my god, the front page just turns me off. I do a quick glance, see if anything isn’t some not-so-subtly covert advert for an LLM product, and just navigate away.

      There are some alternative front pages (https://elijahpotter.dev/hnsansai) to make it bearable, but even then

        • OctopusNemeses@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6 天前

          I’ve run this experiment before. ~90% of accounts sampled on the top 20 /r/all with not prior post history before 2-3 months got converted to cryptocurrency spam bots. Some of the remainder were porn spam. A few deleted accounts. A few seemingly real people. This was during the heights of cryptocurrency mania. Believe me or don’t. I can’t be assed with source dropping internet-pseud wankery.

          Bot deception tactics have certainly changed since the prevalence of LLMs. I haven’t been paying attention to what the patterns have shifted to. Before these times, it was easily spotted because they were relatively simple.

          I believe earlier this year someone on /r/theoryofreddit spotted closed networks of subreddits where bots engage with each other. Those are used to farm accounts on a massive scale.

      • odelik@lemmy.todayEnglish
        4·
        7 天前

        Don’t call out that, cus that’s just as hateful as hate! /s

        Or something like that I presume.

        It’s not* even tolerance paradox shit (which only exists if you misunderstand what tolerance is), it’s full blown normalization of biggoted behavior.

        • baddaywithacamera@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          7 天前

          It is frustrating for sure. I do appreciate the higher signal to noise ratio in the fediverse and also that it is decentralized, I think it makes for a better experience overall.

          Cheers to you. :)

  • solidheron@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    5 天前

    More like reddit has so much content it dwarf’s lemmy, but it was bound to happen, you can always mute the bots

  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    15·
    7 天前

    I’d love a lemmy client that next to a username, it gives their post to comment ratio. That tends to give me a solid feel. If they don’t comment on their own posts ever, then they are not here to discuss.

    • AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      7 天前

      You’re right, that’d be a really useful heuristic. I comment way more than I post, but whenever I do post, I always make sure to reply to at least a few of the comments people leave. It feels almost like a duty, and I’d feel bad if I didn’t at least try.

    • InFerNo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      7 天前

      That kind of check is easily evaded. Consider this bot posting automatic, what prevents it from replying to some comments by running it through AI?

  • CovfefeKills@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    6 天前

    As long as the bot is allowed to be there it’s not a problem it’s not ideal obviously. It should be considered if it is actually a good idea will the community ever develop if it is just already 100% reddit reposts?