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The rules for bots (docs.beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by Lionir@beehaw.org to c/support@beehaw.org
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After some discussions in !chat, we came up with the conclusion we should adopt rules surrounding bots.

We'll ban bots which we are aware of that currently don't follow these rules and contact their creators. Please report bots that don't follow these.

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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (27 children)

Hi there!

I've been contacted regarding my @autotldr@lemmings.world bot. Currently it's disabled for beehaw.org as can be seen here.

I'd like to raise a discussion though as I think the bot is really useful.

Here are some global all-time stats:

 ---------- --------- ----------- ------------------------- ------------------------- ------------------------ 
  Comments   Upvotes   Downvotes   Negative comments count   Positive comments count   Neutral comments count  
 ---------- --------- ----------- ------------------------- ------------------------- ------------------------ 
  430        3096      82          0                         429                       1                       
 ---------- --------- ----------- ------------------------- ------------------------- ------------------------

These are per-instance stats (I stripped other instances than yours). If I'm not mistaken, downvotes are disabled on Beehaw, so the like ratio doesn't say much, but other numbers still could:

 -------------------- ---------- --------- ----------- ------------ --------------------- 
  Instance             Comments   Upvotes   Downvotes   Like ratio   Upvotes per comment  
 -------------------- ---------- --------- ----------- ------------ --------------------- 
  beehaw.org           28         236       0           100.00%      8.43

Edit: The stats are generated by this - while it's not the cleanest code I've ever written, I think it's pretty readable and everyone can see that the stats are not some weird numbers to make it look better than it is.

[–] Lionir@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (12 children)

My thoughts are mostly that I wish this were integrated in Lemmy because of a couple reasons:

  • People might be interested to see comments, see that there's one in a thread only to realize it's a bot
  • The sorting algorithm of lemmy makes no difference between bots and users so it can give a much higher importance to posts which attract bots (namely news)
  • Posting it as a comment just feels a bit noisy? It takes a lot of space in a thread.
    • On the other hand, maybe it could be hidden by a spoiler tag? I think @nfld0001@beehaw.org mentioned this being a possibility
[–] nfld0001@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

On the other hand, maybe it could be hidden by a spoiler tag? I think @nfld0001@beehaw.org mentioned this being a possibility

Yep.

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