As we see more and more bots on Lemmy World every day, it’s about time we publish a set of rules for bots and bot-owners.
So here goes:
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Bots shall not be used for any kind of advertising.
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The bot accounts must be clearly marked as a bot. Both in the bio and by marking the account as a bot.
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The owner of the bot and contact details must be mentioned in the bot’s bio.
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Bots are only allowed to post in communities they have the explicit permission from the community’s owners to do so.
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Bots from other instances that post in Lemmy World communities must follow the same rules.
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Bots shall not just be posting Reddit content.
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Bots shall not be “spammy”, as in multiple posts per minute.
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Breaking any of these rules will result in a ban for the Bot and, if required, its owner.
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Commands must use the bots mention as prefix, and not a text prefix like !help
These rules will be updated when needed.
Excellent. Bots can be helpful, but they should be few in number. Some of them would drive me crazy on Reddit. Like that stupid ‘water is not wet’ bot.
The bot that told people if their post’s words were in alphabetical order - like why do we need that?
I loved that bot, especially when it would reply to particularly heated comments where someone was getting really mad. nothing funnier than someone losing their shit and then being smacked with “wow, all the words in your comment are in alphabetical order!” lmao
The bot that told users when all the numbers in their post added up to 69 / 420 as well.