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There are most definitely some useful bots, like the recent tldr that I've encountered. I find them incredibly valuable. They should be used sparingly though.
"Fun" joke or game bots could be okay with if they were in specific communities that wanted them (which would be communities I'm not a part of, ๐), but not in general. I tend to be a purist and like to keep things as vanilla as possible.
The tldr bot has now been disabled as per the decision of Beehaw. Contact your favorite community mods if you'd like to change that.
Bots like that one that changes YouTube links to Piped are good, as are bots like a metric/freedom unit converter. A well done meme bot could even be good. I just don't like the ones that pretend to be human.
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bots are kinda boring
I think some comment bots are nice, like the TLDR / summarization bot, reminder bot, youtube piped links, maybe one that replaces an amp link with the original? But these bots should be labeled as bots in settings so users have the option to toggle off seeing them.
I don't like having bots post posts though, I've seen some in other instances and there's not much discussion happening in the comments a lot of the time.
The summary bot has now been disabled as per the decision of Beehaw. Contact your favorite community mods if you'd like to change that.
I don't find bots useful. I was on Reddit for years and I didn't use any of them. I don't think the door should be closed on bots permanently but for now I'd rather not see them, they're no better than spam to me.
Any bot I can think of is one I can do without. Beehaw is about human communication and while I can see bots eventually being useful currently they are just annoying. I'd like to eventually see them brought in under strict guidelines.
I'm here for the people. I don't want to be a part of a community that is bots talking with bots, which is what I felt like places like Reddit had become. When I found Beehaw, it was a breath of fresh air to actually see intelligent conversations between real people. I'd hate to see that be lost.
Auto tldr is really cool, this is a bot I support
The auto tldr bot has now been disabled as per the decision of Beehaw. Contact your favorite community mods if you'd like to change that.
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I'm here to interact with people, not bots. Bots, and everything they do, are soulless.