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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] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The bot posts a daily thread titled "How are you doing today?", everyday. Not really the type of important information worthy of overriding users preferences to not see bot posts.

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

How would it be different if Lemmy allowed scheduled post creation in the platform itself? It seems more like a workaround to a feature missing than the bot reposts people usually complain about.

The fact that the daily post isn't that interesting, I get it, it's not for everyone, but it doesn't really have anything to do with it being done by a bot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

You’re trying to look at this in a way to get the answer you want. It’s simple, is it a bot? Yes. Nothing else matters after that answer.