$916 billion = US military budget, in 2023.
Just think of all the good that could be done with that money…
Poverty-reduction, environment-restoration, water-health, high-speed trains, global-aid…
When will we be angelic?
picoblaanket
joined 4 years ago
“OP made it opt-in”
1 - It’s not opt-in "By User" though. It’s opt-in "By Community"...
So if one person turns it on, 1000’s of other people see it.
OP keeps saying “you can just toggle it off”... but I really can’t... when anyone can toggle it back on.
2 - Future options for toggling are not much better (bottom of the repo, To-Do section):
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"if a moderator adds the haiku-bot, non-mod users cannot remove it"
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“only allow moderators to subscribe/unsubscribe”
...so the toggle option wouldn’t apply to 99% of people anyway.
“a few users were waiting for this (-OP)”
Who was waiting for it? The top level replies in this thread are:
- you, who wouldn’t use it
- me, who doesn’t want it
- Otome, who doesn’t like it
I think your bot rules are pretty solid though.
Overall, I just feel like... Lemmy is a fresh space...
a chance to make a new culture...
maybe it's best to leave that old bloated carcass behind.
1 - Yes - some bots are helpful, some (most) are annoying:
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a Haiku bot falls into your "triggered by accident" category (any post that is 17 syllables).
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a Haiku bot also does not add any new contextual information (it just duplicates a comment).
That's why I'm saying the haiku bot is junk.
2 - In this very post, when Otome said "I never liked the Haiku Bot"... OP responded "I’ve never liked them much either"...
so I'm asking OP: "why create a bot to spam lemmy with low-value duplicate content, if you don't even like that bot yourself?"
I'm asking you - what value do YOU think this Haiku bot adds?
You did not answer the question... I asked you:
How is a haiku bot not invasive spam?
It's basically the same as the "all numbers in your post add up to 69" bot.
Okay - What value does a haiku bot add?
It only tells you that a post was 17 syllables...
- and then duplicates a comment (spam),
- and then stretches the duplicated comment vertically (spam).
If you agree that most bots are spam, then why are you making and promoting bots?
Here’s a human haiku:
bots are part of what
made reddit such a wasteland.
most bots are just spam.
i wish lemmy would
remain a place for humans.
why can’t we just talk?
This monkey-script is awesome: Lemmy Universal Link Switcher
It converts all links to your home instance (in your browser).