Comment on The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities.

• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For news and sport it could be useful.

  Tag it as bot generated. Don’t allow bot comments.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also limit the number of posts

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• haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thanks for your opinion. Do you post in that community? Do you have a better idea? If you can answer both questions with no I would ask what differs your post from spam.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not a sports fan what so ever but in other communities bots have been tried and it didn’t go well.

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The !dailygames@lemmy.zip bot works very well.

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    • haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Okay, where did you get that info? Do you know what the term anecdotal evidence describes?

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The last one I looked at was the LTT community

        It had nothing but bots and the occasional user talking about how much the hate LTT

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• gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So don’t let your account see bot accounts

  That’s a you problem

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  • 4am@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The point is that most people won’t participate in a community that’s the same bot, posting headlines over and over, with 1 upvote and 0 comments, day in and day out. I’ve blocked so many of those (especially the ones who’s RSS feed only refreshes like once a day and they vomit like 30 stories at once into some community that shows up in my All feed blocking out everything else for miles of scrolling.)

    You need users expressing their interest via posting. It’s community editorializing that makes platforms like this interesting, from Slashdot and Fark all the way to Lemmy today.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Exactly this

      I don’t want to see 20 posts with no comments.

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    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve blocked so many of those

      Disable bot accounts for yourself if you don’t want to see them, like I already said

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Or I could just go elsewhere

        Lemmy has plenty of communities and instances to choose from

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