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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Bots on reddit are just so universally annoying and most of them provide no value at all. Most of them should have been banned on sight anyways.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"most bots" leave auto summarize bot, reminder bot, repost detection bot about of that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

And prequel bots

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

And WanderingDwarfMiner. Rock and Stone!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Flag waving bot and gif reverse bot come to mind. The value is just fun, but if fun isn't valuable, what is?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I modded a niche outdoor community sub and I banned every bot that found its way there. Sorry, but we don't need a metric conversion bot nor a grammar correcting bot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, because the best part of reddit was the human interaction, and having bots proliferate everywhere just kills that entirely.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The auto-tldr bot was/is pretty useful

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thank you for your feedback! This comment was totally unnecessary but come join us in r/botrank

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Sure I'll be glad to join.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

There was one for a while that told you how many times you left a comment saying "nice." It had a leaderboard and the top ones had done it some tens of thousands of times.