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Unlabel a bot only used for scheduled daily posts to increase visibility? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello everyone,

I am one of the moderators of [email protected]. We use a bot relying on https://schedule.lemmings.world/ to create a post every day automatically.

I know that some users block bots because they consider them annoying, be it repost posts or features bots such as tldr or piped. Having the bot labelled as such prevents the daily threads from being viewed by users who might be interested.

I had that reasoning in the past, but had the bot banned for not complying with the instance guidelines.

I thus open this thread to see what could be done to solve this issue. Could there be exceptions to the bot labelling guidelines in this kind of cases?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Bots are bots. If I want to filter them I should be able to.

Manually create the threads as a user if you want to enable everyone to see it

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What is the limit between a bot and a user?

If I create the post using a script on my computer, is that a bot, or a user?

Should I hire someone to press the post button everyday to make it a post from a user?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

If you press the submit button = User

If you tell something else to press the submit button = bot