• eatham 🇭🇲@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Your opinion is not unpopular, everyone wants these dumb repost/article bots that post the same link in 15 communities gone.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, initially I thought it would be a good idea to kick-start discussion for certain communities, but in practice nobody comments on those posts.

      I ended up blocking the bots too.

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        1 year ago

        The reason I personally don’t comment on those bot posts is because there’s no real OP that might be interested in my answer/opinion so I think “Why even bother?”.

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        1 year ago

        Blocking works really well cause there’s so few of them. I’ve only blocked a single one (months ago) and haven’t had any bot spam of the level of disliked. I still do see some from humans, but most of the time that’s people trying to populate a smaller community where they’re basically the only poster so far. There isn’t really any other good options to jump start most communities, since people tend to not post (or even know about) new communities until they’re active.