wazoobonkerbrain

EASY ON THE CAPS LOCK

I don't hate all bots. I very much enjoyed the ones on reddit that corrected people's grammar 😆 If it's not possible to make a bot opt in, then a bot as unpopular as this one should simply be switched off.

Whether they are effective or not is definitely in question, but they are unquestionably intended to be informative.

There is a big difference between "informative" and "unsuccessfully intended to be informative" and the latter ought not to exist.

If they irritate you,

It ain't just me. I'm too lazy to dig it up but there was a recent thread about the media bias bot and the loathing was near unanimous. The objections were qualitative, e.g. the fallacy of using one biased web site to determine whether another web site is biased.

you have the ability to exercise your right to block them.

Opt in is better than opt out. Rather than asking every user who hates the bot (i.e. most users) to block it, better to provide something that can be subscribed to by those who want it.

You being annoyed at something you don't like isn't a reason to not have it.

Sure it is.

The bots are not tools to help us stay informed. They are irritating as all hell. There was a thread recently about the media bias bot and it got utterly slated. It needs to die.

"Billionaires should not exist". The people who died on the yacht were not quite billionaires, they were worth only nine figures rather than ten. But still, you don't accumulate that much wealth without exploiting others.

The same day, the ex vice president of Autonomy software, was killed in a car accident.

It was not on the same day. Chamberlain died on 17/08. The Bayesian sunk on the morning of 19/08. I agree that it's a weird coincidence that the two cofounders died within days of each other, and only a short time after winning their lawsuit. But I can't imagine it's a conspiracy. You don't assassinate someone by sinking their boat in a storm. The road death is not suspicious either, the driver in question is a local woman who is cooperating with police, it's not like some anonymous driver struck the man down and then disappeared.

😂 I could understand why some people feel that way.

I like it because it does not have any ads, and because it's very easy to switch between accounts. You can even post from one account while logged in to another.

But that is the only reddit mobile app that I ever used. I never even downloaded the official one, nor did I try any of the other third party ones that got blocked. I could believe that some of them were much better than RedReader.

I can't remember the exact wording of the justification for the ban, but it was something vague like "violation of site wide policy". I did not do anything questionable to trigger a ban. I suspect that the real reason for the ban was to force me to provide an email address. The reason I think that is that old reddit displays the message "provide an email address to reactivate your account".

Whoopsies! I posted that to a similar conversation in a completely different thread, I got confused. My apologies. I don't know what you mean when you say that it is happening to me but not to you. You say that your account is banned and that you can only lurk - sounds exactly the same as my experience. Nothing to do with adblock as I have confirmed the problem on multiple platforms.

My account is banned. I can still log in and lurk, but not post, upvote, etc. And, as I already said: When I log in to the main site, it says "account permanently banned". When I log in to old reddit, it says "provide an email to reactivate your account".