• @schmidt_fu@lemmy.ml
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    62 years ago

    Never seen one. But I can imagine some being useful. Bridge bots to autopost from other sources, translate bots or reference bots (like Wikipedias “Linky”), for example.

    • @adrianmalacoda@lemmy.ml
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      82 years ago

      I think bots have the potential to be useful but reddit is absolutely overwhelmed with (IMHO) wasteful bots like “shakespeare bot” and “dad joke bot.” I think a good baseline policy could be that bots should not make unsolicited comments, although I could imagine some cases where that might be welcome (e.g. a reverse image search bot pulling up the original version of an image).