• CoderKat@kbin.social
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      There’s lots of useful bots besides just summarizers. Reminder bots can be great. Some linkifying bots are also useful (like Marv in r/SCP). Bots can detect malicious spam bots. Subs like AITA use bots to tally up user votes. There’s bots for moderation actions, too.

      But we really could use a way to get rid of the absolutely useless bots. We don’t need terrible spelling correcting bots, a bot whose sole purpose is to tell people not to put “the” in front of “Ukraine”, or a bot that lectures people on AMP links.

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      I mostly liked the Character Bots in LOTR or other sub specific bots.

      Sitewide bots were more annoying because they were not tailored to the community.

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      Yeah I just don’t want people to completely ban any kind of automation on here because there’s good examples. Unit converters from freedom units to metric is another good example. And personally I enjoyed the fake bots like BobbyB and elonbot that made jokes all the time, but I’m not gonna die on that hill if the community at large wants to keep them away.