If a human posted every 5 min, got 0 upvotes for 20 posts straight, we would ban them for spam. If bots would limit themselves to posting once a day, or once a week, and only post the top-voted non-duplicate post of that timeframe, it would be a dramatic improvement. For once, we might actually see real-lemmy posts along side bot posts, instead of the community being exclusively bots (or 99% bot posts) or exclusively Lemmy users.

I would tell the bot creators myself, except I don’t know how to get in contact with them. Is there a consistent way to contact a bot creator?

  • jeffhykin@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    No that’s my point we CAN’T rank them.

    • for every 1000 reddit posts there are 100,000 reddit up/down voters ranking those posts.
    • Bots completely break this ratio: for every 1000 Lemmy bot posts, there are effectively 10 Lemmy up/down voters.

    It is totally impractical for us to correctly/effectively rank the absolute torrent of posts coming from reddit.

    The bot ERASES the reddit votes; every high quality 1000-reddit-upvote post is surrounded by an ocean of straightup-spam 1-reddit-upvote post.

    Not only that but real Lemmy posts in a community are completely drowned out by bot posts. I can’t even find real users posting in a community because there’s so many bot posts.