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we banned and purged that acct from our servers earlier today
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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I already don't like the cross post bots spamming reddit posts here. Half of them are questions (such as AITA or ELI5 posts). Why would I answer a question made by someone on Reddit when they won't actually see the reply? ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Yeah... it really seems like a paywall is the only thing that stops this. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Oww well, it was fun while it lasted!
Is there an option to report accounts / comments? Are bots even forbidden? I'm with you, Reddit was a bot shit show and I'd love to see a space with zero bots. I think even the utility bots like unit conversion added very little value.
The SCP sub had a bot that would tag any relevant SCP articles that you mention in your title or in the comments. It was extremely useful for getting into the community.
I always found it funny when Marvin would go rogue and appear outside the SCP sub (which wasn't supposed to happen). Perhaps he was an SCP himself ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
The difficult part about that is, the way Lemmy is designed to easily integrate any custom client also allows bots to be made even easier. Only way to really do it would be by restricting the API, and with it, a lot of the freedoms of Lemmy.
There definitely were good bots on Reddit - they were just drowned out by a million shitty ones.