There is this Reddit scraper bot that does it much better: github.com/daniel-lxs/BotIt
It can be configured to only scrape highly upvoted external links and that works quite well on one of our communities.
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cheeseball@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I think this is great, thank you for doing this. The bots that just repost content from Reddit are useless. Generates zero discussion. Especially the ones that copy content from AITA or other similar communities. If the OP is not there to answer questions or respond, what’s the point?
poVoq@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
venusenvy47@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Can you mention the community name? I would actually be interested in a community that shows just highly upvoted, as opposed to everything.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
!solarpunk@slrpnk.net The bot is called “SAM bot” and is run by one of our users.
ApeNo1@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Exactly. If there is no chance of some interesting engagement from OP or others then it is just noise. I have been trying to engage more in Lemmy than I used to in Reddit and I was wondering how to block these type of posts, especially from Reddit, in a more manageable way.
Cube6392@beehaw.org 11 months ago
The bots that duplicate over every single comment also aren’t useful, IMO. The comment sections for those posts are so full of bot comments that a human user won’t see any opportunity to create an engagement hook. And if another human DID comment, its so lost in the noise that no one will probably see it or respond. Further, since votes aren’t replicated over, horrible odious comments that got voted into oblivion get copied over with equal weight as good comments