Hello everyone,

I am one of the moderators of !casualconversation@lemmy.world. 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?

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
    4•1 year ago

    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

    • @Bl4ze@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      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

      Sounds nice, would you like to do this? I can add you to the mod team right away

      • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
        1•1 year ago

        It’s something I can take up to some extent, less so at the moment though due to work and trying to get myself into a routine lol.

        I have a local lemmy.world account @lemann@lemmy.world which would be more ideal than this remote one

        I do have some additional questions and potential ideas - an immediate concern would be myself getting blocked by users who blocked the bot to hide the daily threads 😂 so ideally would want to make sure the new human-posted “how are you doing” threads actually bring value to users rather than encourage a handful of the 6k subs to block me lol.

        Could ask the community what their thoughts on the existing daily thread are - it looks like a great discussion starter to me personally, after looking at a handful they have a noticeable following with a few common users