Hi all,
What’s your opinion on the repost bot in the AITA community? From my perspective, it provides little to no value to cross post such content from another website.
First of all, AITA lives off the comments and if there aren’t any, it’s not really entertaining to read the posts.
Second, if someone hypothetically replied here, it would never reach the OP on reddit, so it’s not meaningful to make the effort.
And last but not least, if there are sometimes dozens of reposts per hour here, it drowns any interesting original content on Lemmy.
So overall I guess it brings more harm than good.
PS: Originally I planned to post this in the AITA community directly but ironically it’s locked down to “mods only”. So there’s not even a chance to have there any original content.
Regards, rbn
I just block repost bots. It’s funny how that sentence has different context now.
In a word, asinine.
Who thought this would be a good idea? I also find the tendency of making shoddy subReddit replicas is bankrupt and devoid of imagination. It’s like when the British pilgrims voyaged for weeks across the Atlantic into uncharted territory, only to found their new towns with the same fucking name as the place they just left.
I mostly agree with you, but Reddit has such unique and niche ideas that it’s kinda hard not to use them.
Why repost the content here if you’ll never reach the poster?
deleted by creator
r/bestof style of community could work, where the stuff is curated reposts and not straight up garbage
AITA is one of the worst karmafarming subs to exist on Reddit. 4chan is more reliably truthful than that place.
I accept everything you say, but I am still subscribed to it and read it a lot, even gasp following the Reddit link to the replies. Someone help me please with my addiction.
It’s all fake.
There. Hopeful that fixed it for you.
It doesn’t matter that the AITA questions are fake. The responses are a fascinating insight into the minds of… people that frequent /r/AITA.
I’m afraid that does not help, fiction or non-fiction, it is all the same to me. It is amusing to try and spot the clear fakes, and to second guess the responses - will it be NTA or YTA?
I probably need to go cold turkey.
YTA
He spend so much time trying to help you out of your addiction and you’re just disregarding all his efforts as not helpful.
Guilty! But you are posting in the wrong community.
I lack the willpower to block the bot. Someone please save me from myself.
I’m not a fan of reposting AITA content. The fun is in the comments, which you don’t get here.
Yeah not a fan of it for all of the reasons you stated.
I don’t mind bots in general, the HNs bot can be annoying but sometimes it has something. A ouldn’t mind a few art centered. But I was glad when I left AITA behind, it’s so toxic!
Is that .world? I must be defederated from it
I encourage stealing from these communities: aww, askhistorians
I discourage stealing from: any of the innumerable fake story subreddits.
I blocked that whole community because of that bot. I kind of get the impulse, but it’s swamping any attempt at useful discourse with layers of shit.
I don’t think I like the idea. I’ve come across too many posts elsewhere that describe strategies for using AITA, JUSTNOMIL, etc., to get enough karma quickly to enable new alt accounts to post elsewhere on Reddit where minimum Karma scores are enforced. I don’t want fake shit here even if that means we have less content.
Absolutely and these posts dont get much replies, why would I reply to a bot instead of OP. The bot wont reply and won’t know anything about the original.
Repost bots are universally dogshit and should be forbidden.
News reposts can add value.
Manual posts are fine. Not bot posts. If I wanted to see every news article, I’d just go to a news site or use an RSS reader. Not every news article needs commentary, and not every news article is interesting enough to warrant being posted here.
Absolutely Fucking not, full stop. Not indiscriminately spamming everything posted on Reddit with no user interaction, it makes the fediverse look dead
If you wanna repost shit that’s fine, but not 10k posts at a fucking time
Hard disagree. You’re going to get more engagement if there are posts to discuss. News was one of the main reasons I was on reddit, and the reposts here are a big part of why I don’t visit reddit at all anymore. Sure I want to discuss the news and wish there were more commenters in each post, but at least the news is still showing up here. News without much conversation beats no news at all.
Go check out the average comment count on a post from Lemmit.online
I’ll wait.
Reddit has a pro-NATO Nazi supporting bias, so such repost bots should be disallowed.
Lol
If the content feed is what’s valuable and can be reposted to Lemmy, it gives people one less reason to stay on Reddit.
No it doesn’t. Comments and engagement are what drives communities and the bots kill that. Someone pops in from Reddit, sees nothing but shit from Reddit? They’re gonna go back to Reddit. It’s fucking asinine.
This, 100%. I’d rather see 10 posts with a bunch of comments than 150 posts with no comments.
I can get news anywhere.
Especially with the frequency that these repost bots post, it’s just drowns out real posts and makes lemmy look like a bot farm.
Repost pots are kinda my personal hatred on Lemmy, my block list is ridiculous
Can’t wait for instance blocking so zerobyte or whatever the repost instance is called can be removed from my life forever.
For what it’s worth, many apps like Boost and Sync can do this locally.
Oooo that’s certainly a handy feature.
Zerobyte and Lemmit
You’re entitled to your own opinion, but you seem to be assigning your opinion to me as well.
I didn’t leave reddit because the content was bad. I left because they stopped supporting mobile apps. That seems to be why most people left to be honest.
Lemmy is my one stop shop for news and social media. If there were not news stories being reposted from Reddit then Lemmy would not be a suitable reddit replacement.
No one is assigning their opinion to you. We each have our own competing opinions which we are advocating for.
If you stop the bots, actual people will start posting actual content like an actual community.
Repost bots can help siphon users from reddit and make it easier to transition.
