Hello everyone,
I am one of the moderators of [email protected]. We use a bot relying on https://schedule.lemmings.world/ to create a post every day automatically.
I know that some users block bots because they consider them annoying, be it repost posts or features bots such as tldr or piped. Having the bot labelled as such prevents the daily threads from being viewed by users who might be interested.
I had that reasoning in the past, but had the bot banned for not complying with the instance guidelines.
I thus open this thread to see what could be done to solve this issue. Could there be exceptions to the bot labelling guidelines in this kind of cases?
That community looks neat, subscribed!
But i’m not too sure how I feel about the bot being unlabeled as such, some users will want their lemmy experience to be 100% heart beating human, not some of it be transistor switching bots.
I personally keep bots visible, and just block what I don’t want to see… If a user has blocked all bots then they would probably know the implications.
If you want to run a daily thread for conversations which isn’t tagged as a bot, it would be nicer to create it manually, where the title and description has a personalised touch with how you’re doing etc, instead of a schedule bot pre-filling these from a template