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:

  • Bots shall not be used for any kind of advertising.

  • The bot accounts must be clearly marked as a bot. Both in the bio and by marking the account as a bot.

  • The owner of the bot and contact details must be mentioned in the bot’s bio.

  • Bots are only allowed to post in communities they have the explicit permission from the community’s owners to do so.

  • Bots from other instances that post in Lemmy World communities must follow the same rules.

  • Bots shall not just be posting Reddit content.

  • Bots shall not be “spammy”, as in multiple posts per minute.

  • Breaking any of these rules will result in a ban for the Bot and, if required, its owner.

  • Commands must use the bots mention as prefix, and not a text prefix like !help

These rules will be updated when needed.

  • @TheGreatFox
    3•2 years ago

    Suggestion: Add an option in settings to disable showing inline images in the text part of posts/comments. Them showing as a link, or as “inline media collapsed”, or similar, was a big part of making old-reddit comment threads more readable than the new-reddit version. Not a lot of people use (or know how to) embed images here yet, and it’d be a good idea to add that setting before then.

    Not sure if this is the right place to suggest this, but couldn’t find a better one.

      • @TheGreatFox
        2•2 years ago

        It does, thanks. I’ll post it there. Also, apparently the image collapsing was a part of RES, I’ve had that so long I didn’t even realize it wasn’t default.