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Replicating reddit content from AITA (feddit.ch)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all,

What's your opinion on the repost bot in the AITA community? From my perspective, it provides little to no value to cross post such content from another website.

First of all, AITA lives off the comments and if there aren't any, it's not really entertaining to read the posts.

Second, if someone hypothetically replied here, it would never reach the OP on reddit, so it's not meaningful to make the effort.

And last but not least, if there are sometimes dozens of reposts per hour here, it drowns any interesting original content on Lemmy.

So overall I guess it brings more harm than good.

PS: Originally I planned to post this in the AITA community directly but ironically it's locked down to "mods only". So there's not even a chance to have there any original content.

Regards, rbn

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Repost bots are universally dogshit and should be forbidden.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

News reposts can add value.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Absolutely Fucking not, full stop. Not indiscriminately spamming everything posted on Reddit with no user interaction, it makes the fediverse look dead

If you wanna repost shit that’s fine, but not 10k posts at a fucking time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hate repost bots, if you want to use one as a back-er-up-er-er it should post to a dedicated community intended to be an archive, not the main communities for a topic, they are practically spam and don't promote any conversation in the comments as people avoid commenting on something that has zero connection to the original poster of the question.