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honest, I was not the user that started this community, but asked to be made a mod once I noticed the original mod was no longer active.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!

  • raptir@lemdro.idEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    I generally do not like any of these reposting bots. If I wanted to browse electrek I would add it to my RSS feed. The advantage of a community like Lemmy is that we can have human-curated content - that someone finds something interesting online and posts it here for everyone else to review and comment on.

    Just like I don’t want a bot that pulls every post from r/ElectricVehicles and posts it here I don’t want a bot that mindlessly pulls from any news source.

  • spiritedpause@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Wooster@startrek.websiteEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I’ll just throw in my two cents and say, to a degree… I like the bot.

    It provides us a diversity of topics that otherwise wouldn’t come to surface.

    The problem is that the bot isn’t curated. Amongst the gold is a lot of fluff and repetitive content.