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[–]AbeFroman 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm not calling someone a bot. I'm calling your bots, bots. u/nygal u/dcjogger u/Unicorn u/Susan21 among others. Shitty bots too. Posting the same old news from years ago, cut and paste rants with dead links. Fucking doom and gloom garbage.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Should we crack down on these bots? Maybe require that they have 'bot' in the name?

[–]AbeFroman 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think bots are fine. Bots pretending to be humans is the issue. Saidit promotes civilized conversation, something you can't have with a bot, at least not with these bots. Have enough bots controlled by someone with an agenda, and those posts rise to the top, while real organic posts are buried. Then saidit starts to look like reddit. I think bots should be identified, it's not a huge problem now, but it might be in the future. I appreciate that you took the time to consider identifying these bots, they piss me off.