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They make it so I can't subscribe to this community as they will fill the ever living exultation of my feed. Too many.
But I'm not saying remove them.
Just wanted to let you know incase you are not aware, you can uncheck "show bot accounts" under settings, as long as the bot is marked appropriately you will no longer see bot posts.
We are listening to the input here, and will have a discussion around the topic.
One problem I can see there is that bots will likely sometimes post good articles that are worth seeing. If you block the bots then you don't see those.
Yeah it's a bit of a catch 22.
I'm also a bit bias on the subject, as I run @[email protected] here, but will take it down if we feel it's necessary.
I think it's fine for now personally, the only recommendations I would make to you and other bot creators are to add a thing to check that a link hasn't already been posted, and maybe to decrease the frequency a bit.
That's fair, my bot posts once an hour and checks it's own previous posts. That is actually something I did not write, but pulled from github.
I wrote something in Python for videos that I can convert to the tech community, that one does check all community posts and won't repost.