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Do people think the reddit scraping bots are useful? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by _jonatan_@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I feel like it just creates a potemkin village where we have communities filled with content that nobody interacts with or cares about.

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[–] Impossible@partizle.com 5 points 1 year ago

It's a great question. I am missing certain content from the niche sub-reddits and trying hard not to fall back to Reddit.

Some of this 'reposting' will help the community to add comments/interaction but as you mention may turn this platform into a leech.

Either way people implementing Bots helps the moderation teams to some extent.