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
Hate repost bots, if you want to use one as a back-er-up-er-er it should post to a dedicated community intended to be an archive, not the main communities for a topic, they are practically spam and don’t promote any conversation in the comments as people avoid commenting on something that has zero connection to the original poster of the question.
a dedicated community intended to be an archive
That’s the intention of lemmit.online, but it leaks. It should just be a stand alone instance not federated to anywhere else.
Disagree. If it’s tagged as a bot account, you can ignore it. You can block the community, instance, individual bots.
While I don’t like them, other people do. This isn’t a community where staffers currate, it’s a place of free federation. By joining Lemmy you agree to use your time to curate your own content.
Sure. Only this is not content - it’s just spam.
I find it very hard to believe there’s a single user that finds any value in reposting /r/AITA posts. Without the comments the questions have no value as content.
Interesting timing with this making All yesterday. https://lemm.ee/post/10568520
That’s not an /r/AITA post.
Additionally, you’ll notice that the post that hit all is a cross post from an actual user. The original post from the bot has no upvotes and no comments.
IMO, this is really just evidence that the bot is counter productive.
Oh good catch, and point.
I 100% agree, for me. But while I find it hard to believe, some people may want it. They may run their own instance and subscribe to archive the content. They may just like to read it. I have no idea how crazy people are. All that being said, I’m in favor or separate archive communities.
There’s a tech news bot that regularly gets a lot of community engagement, so blocking all bot accounts would also block part of the good stuff.
You can block the community, instance, individual bots.
You actually can’t block instances. Blocking individual communities and bots when there are so many is terrible UX.
Well I didn’t see the option when I looked just now.
Edit: nvm found it
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News reposts can add value.
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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.
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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.
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Lol
AITA is one of the worst karmafarming subs to exist on Reddit. 4chan is more reliably truthful than that place.
Yeah not a fan of it for all of the reasons you stated.
I think that that bot might actually be preventing the AITA community from growing. Yeah, it’s easy enough to block the bot. I don’t disagree with that at all.
The majority of new users may look at the community and see nothing but bot posts. I don’t know about you, but if all I see on a community are bot posts, I tend to skip that community. I don’t always care to go digging through numerous posts to see if it’s worth it to block a bot. Doubly so, if there is so much bot posting that the normal posts are practically hidden. A new user may just assume that the community is intended for bots and just skip it altogether.
I don’t care about AITA anymore to be honest, but too many bot posts can definitely hinder the growth of a community. I think that would be true for many communities.
Imo, it’s a touch worse when the community is based on personal stories. No one will really benefit from voting/discussing. Instead, you’re reading posts that someone else intended for another group on another website. There isn’t really a lot of “community” that you can get with that. Short story readers group, I guess? The actual OP certainly won’t get any of the input.
I can’t say it better!
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I don’t even like the AITA subreddit. It’s precisely that kind of validation that annoys me the most of a social community. In the case of /r/AITA, it’s just so “on your face”. People rarely will tell the truth about their topics, even when they do, why go so harsh about themselves? Why not ask “Am I wrong here?”, "Am I committing a mistake?, “Will I regret this?” instead of a “Am I the asshole?”. Don’t you think very self-entitled people will come and tell you “fuck yes! YATA”?
Ah, anyway, no, bots that can crosspost from other communities shouldn’t be allowed. We also shouldn’t try to replicate every successful/popular community, especially if it’s a toxic one.
Why repost the content here if you’ll never reach the poster?
Not for AITA, but I once wrote a long emotional response to a relationship reddit repost without realizing it what it really was. Only after hitting send did I finally see. It really sucked because I thought I was helping the OP with some advice and comfort and felt like a huge idiot afterwards.
So, yea… there’s no real value in reposting these kinds of messages if you can’t even reach out to the OP. And it just feels kind of scummy to be discussing these kinds of issues without the OP even being able to read along.The bot should really be bidirectional. Like message the Reddit OP if there are replies here / respond to the original thread. But I don’t think Reddit would allow that
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No, reddit should be reddit and lemmy should be lemmy.
Lemmy should be Lemmy
Man you’re missing the entire point of federation. The whole idea is it’s not just one site.
The whole idea is that there’s no single point of control.
The whole idea does not include dumping spam from whatever other sites on lemmy. No one is interacting with this crap.
I encourage stealing from these communities: aww, askhistorians
I discourage stealing from: any of the innumerable fake story subreddits.
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.
You could probably just make a bot to generate AITA stories, they would be the same quality
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r/bestof style of community could work, where the stuff is curated reposts and not straight up garbage
I agree, I think it does more harm than good.
A repost bot could provide some value if it’s reposting say news articles or sports scores. Even then you would need to find a way to make sure the posts have some value and are not just spam. However if the purpose of the post was to provide some sort of advice to the OP, the repost is worthless.
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.
