The rules for bots # Bots should be clearly prompted by a command # Bots that always post without human intervention are noisy and are often unwanted. Bots should not act in a community without mods from that community being contacted first # Moderators should not have to chase down the bots being used in their community, it should be opt-in. Just ask, be nice. Bots should minimize the space they take with their messages # A bot’s response should be a small as possible to avoid taking space that could be used by people.

After some discussions in !chat, we came up with the conclusion we should adopt rules surrounding bots.

We’ll ban bots which we are aware of that currently don’t follow these rules and contact their creators. Please report bots that don’t follow these.

  • Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.orgOPMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My thoughts are mostly that I wish this were integrated in Lemmy because of a couple reasons:

    • People might be interested to see comments, see that there’s one in a thread only to realize it’s a bot
    • The sorting algorithm of lemmy makes no difference between bots and users so it can give a much higher importance to posts which attract bots (namely news)
    • Posting it as a comment just feels a bit noisy? It takes a lot of space in a thread.
      • On the other hand, maybe it could be hidden by a spoiler tag? I think @[email protected] mentioned this being a possibility