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cron@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
One thing that annoys me about each statistic about posts is that I don’t know how many of these posts are actually interesting and engaged with.
For example, there is a specific instance that just mirrors reddit content and has barely any engagement. The bot posts mulitple posts per hour, mostly without any comments or upvotes.
It seems rather irrelevant to compare these posts to actually interesting posts with a nice discussion and a couple of upvotes.
My suggestion would be to count and plot the number of posts that have at least a few interactions.
OpenStars@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
cron@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I‘m not worried about myself. It’s easy enough to block stuff I don’t like. All I wanted to say os that counting daily posts without excluding bots doesn’t make much sense to me.
OpenStars@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
The issue does get murky - especially when people use the same account both for their bot posting and also for their human interactions, rather than separating the two.
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Out of curiosity, which instance?
cron@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
The instance is called lemmit.online, and the most upvoted post on the whole instance is “This bot is bad for lemmy”.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
the question is whether the upvotes of that post makes over half of the total upvotes on all posts on that instance, and that i seriously doubt
cron@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
No? Did I claim this?
The most upvoted post has ~20 upvotes, but there are a lot of posts with 1-5 upvotes.