Hey everyone.
As most of you have probably noticed, as of about a week ago a news bot was added to this community and started posting articles from certain blogs/news sources every hour or so. This bot was not added by me, and as there are limited mod controls in Lemmy right now, I’m unable to limit the addition of bots to just mods (or at least require mod approval). I wanted to gauge this community’s sentiments about having that bot remain a part of this community?
Separately, I wanted to see if anyone else is interested in modding? To be honest, I was not the user that started this community, but asked to be made a mod once I noticed the original mod was no longer active. I won’t have the time to remain an active mod here as the community grows, so if there are folks who would be interested in taking on that role, please leave a comment below expressing your interest and leave a brief note as to why you’re interested.
Thanks everyone!
Hi guys, I’m the creator of the bot! My intention was only to have it add posts that are relevant to EV news, to spur discussions in the community, but I apologize if it came off spammy! I’m happy to modify the frequency it posts to something more like 1-2 links a day.
Yes please, just look how much the bot posted just now, its taken over my entire New feed.
Will do!
I think the intent is good, but you definitely want to keep an eye on how often it posts if it works in other communities too.
The last effect you want is for a community to have so many bot posts it looks like no human is participating in the comment sections. This may cause folks browsing communities to assume the entire community is strictly bot posting only and would lose interest.