We’ll almost certainly have the same once someone develops an Automoderator-bot.
Although it might be unavoidable. Some of them were handy for letting the users help keep a sub on-topic, by letting them vote spam posts to be removed before the moderators had time to get around to deal with reports, or saw those posts for themselves.
Others, like Locationbot on /r/legaladvice might be to keep an archive of the post, so that users can read and comment on it, even after the original has been removed, but without them having to go and leave a link elsewhere.
Both of those would be pretty handy for Lemmy as well as Reddit, and I would not be surprised if someone ended up making more of the same, sooner or later.
Something that might be nice, is if Lemmy had a way for users to silently summon bots to a thread, so you didn’t have a bunch of threads that were just users summoning DownloaderBot, or setting a reminder for themselves.
We’ll almost certainly have the same once someone develops an Automoderator-bot.
But unlike reddit, lemmy is FOSS and as such people could implement a feature to not count comments made by accounts marked as bots. So only comments (supposedly) made by humans count towards the comment count.
Maybe someone will find a way to mod or extend an instance in some way which removes the necessity to add a comment. Like a “pre comment alert” plugin. If Lemmy had some form of extensions api it would certainly be possible
We’ll almost certainly have the same once someone develops an Automoderator-bot.
Although it might be unavoidable. Some of them were handy for letting the users help keep a sub on-topic, by letting them vote spam posts to be removed before the moderators had time to get around to deal with reports, or saw those posts for themselves.
Others, like Locationbot on /r/legaladvice might be to keep an archive of the post, so that users can read and comment on it, even after the original has been removed, but without them having to go and leave a link elsewhere.
Both of those would be pretty handy for Lemmy as well as Reddit, and I would not be surprised if someone ended up making more of the same, sooner or later.
Something that might be nice, is if Lemmy had a way for users to silently summon bots to a thread, so you didn’t have a bunch of threads that were just users summoning DownloaderBot, or setting a reminder for themselves.
But unlike reddit, lemmy is FOSS and as such people could implement a feature to not count comments made by accounts marked as bots. So only comments (supposedly) made by humans count towards the comment count.
You can but there are only a handful of bots
Maybe someone will find a way to mod or extend an instance in some way which removes the necessity to add a comment. Like a “pre comment alert” plugin. If Lemmy had some form of extensions api it would certainly be possible