What are everyone’s thoughts on bots like piped bot and tdlr bot

  • wewbull@feddit.uk
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    7 months ago

    PipedBot: no issues with it.

    TldrBot: I get frustrated with the number of times I see a story where only the bot has commented. “There’s someone here… No there’s not”.

    It’s not the bots fault really, but I wonder if it should wait until somebody else has commented so zero comment stories stay at zero.

    • orgrinrt@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I think most clients should implement some kind of logic to remove bot comments form the comment counts. AFAIK, lemmy already has a feature to distinguish bots(?), so it should probably should be possible to at least suggest some easy enough api for that if none exist currently.