Hi all,

What’s your opinion on the repost bot in the AITA community? From my perspective, it provides little to no value to cross post such content from another website.

First of all, AITA lives off the comments and if there aren’t any, it’s not really entertaining to read the posts.

Second, if someone hypothetically replied here, it would never reach the OP on reddit, so it’s not meaningful to make the effort.

And last but not least, if there are sometimes dozens of reposts per hour here, it drowns any interesting original content on Lemmy.

So overall I guess it brings more harm than good.

PS: Originally I planned to post this in the AITA community directly but ironically it’s locked down to “mods only”. So there’s not even a chance to have there any original content.

Regards, rbn

  • fmstratAEnglish
    9•9 months ago

    Disagree. If it’s tagged as a bot account, you can ignore it. You can block the community, instance, individual bots.

    While I don’t like them, other people do. This isn’t a community where staffers currate, it’s a place of free federation. By joining Lemmy you agree to use your time to curate your own content.

    • @DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      4•9 months ago

      Sure. Only this is not content - it’s just spam.

      I find it very hard to believe there’s a single user that finds any value in reposting /r/AITA posts. Without the comments the questions have no value as content.

      • fmstratAEnglish
        1•9 months ago

        I 100% agree, for me. But while I find it hard to believe, some people may want it. They may run their own instance and subscribe to archive the content. They may just like to read it. I have no idea how crazy people are. All that being said, I’m in favor or separate archive communities.

        • @DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          2•9 months ago

          That’s not an /r/AITA post.

          Additionally, you’ll notice that the post that hit all is a cross post from an actual user. The original post from the bot has no upvotes and no comments.

          IMO, this is really just evidence that the bot is counter productive.

          • fmstratAEnglish
            2•9 months ago

            Oh good catch, and point.

    • @AeroLemming@lemm.eeEnglish
      1•9 months ago

      There’s a tech news bot that regularly gets a lot of community engagement, so blocking all bot accounts would also block part of the good stuff.