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.
I’m glad this happened. Thank you.
Needs a few more quotes around the word “content” though.
Off topic but I just now realized I was responding to the Margot robbie account and this is the first time I’ve seen you “out of character” so, well done.
It’s almost like I’m a professional at playing characters or something. I think I even got nominated for some awards for it too.
Almost.
This is my comment for clarification.
I don’t disagree with any of the rules per se, I definitely disagree with their wording, but I’m an engineer and I know I can argue all day about “young dogs” vs “puppies”. In this case I think I’m not out of line saying there’s clarifications to be made as to what qualifies as “reddit content”.