Repost bots have turned sorting by new in this community into something worse than useless.

  • At Lemmy’s current scale, sorting subscribed communities by new is still one of the best ways to interact with the site. But the repost bots in this one community are generating a post volume which is on par with the entire lemmyverse excluding other “frontpage” style subs like tech/gaming, which means if you sort by new everything else is drowned out by this one community.
  • The post volume here has now has completely swamped the comment volume, and most posts have no discussion at all.
  • The world news bot is also a mod, so it feels dangerous to block them and potentially miss important mod communications.
  • The botit bot is reposting the same links in multiple news subs.

These repost bots aren’t jumpstarting the community, they’re smothering it.

  • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I want it to stop. Please, make it stop. Bots with (so far) 350+ posts and ~30 comments. No engagement, and it’s all just from /r/. If we want to see /r/, we can go there.

    Edit: “[meta] Repost bots removed by mod”

    • sabbah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      2 years ago

      We suggest that if you prefer not to see the content shared by the moderators here, you have the option to block them individually or collectively.