What are your thoughts on bots and people posting only news articles on lemmy? - eviltoast

As the service grows, I have noticed more and more people and bots popping up, only posting links to a news article and that’s that. Usually there is no post, no summary and nothing from the OP but the link.

What do you all think about this?

Do you think it’s a good thing, because it is providing content? Do you maybe find it annyoing and if so, why?

I myself am happy when people take the time out of their say to try to provide content, but for me it’s a bit low effort a lot of the times. Bots I tend to block immediately and people it they make it hard for me to reader other posts between all their link-posting.

But I am more curious how you all think about this and whether you consider it good or bad.

  • shrugal@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Imo we need to be able to differentiate between bot posts and comments. Posts can often be spamy, but comments are almost always useful.