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what does everyone think about piped bot and other bots (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 7 months ago by RobotDaniel@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What are everyone's thoughts on bots like piped bot and tdlr bot

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[–] wewbull 57 points 7 months ago (2 children)

PipedBot: no issues with it.

TldrBot: I get frustrated with the number of times I see a story where only the bot has commented. "There's someone here... No there's not".

It's not the bots fault really, but I wonder if it should wait until somebody else has commented so zero comment stories stay at zero.

[–] orgrinrt@lemmy.world 41 points 7 months ago

I think most clients should implement some kind of logic to remove bot comments form the comment counts. AFAIK, lemmy already has a feature to distinguish bots(?), so it should probably should be possible to at least suggest some easy enough api for that if none exist currently.

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 18 points 7 months ago

Comment count should really just show "0 (1) comments"