Hey everyone.

As most of you have probably noticed, as of about a week ago a news bot was added to this community and started posting articles from certain blogs/news sources every hour or so. This bot was not added by me, and as there are limited mod controls in Lemmy right now, I’m unable to limit the addition of bots to just mods (or at least require mod approval). I wanted to gauge this community’s sentiments about having that bot remain a part of this community?

Separately, I wanted to see if anyone else is interested in modding? To be honest, I was not the user that started this community, but asked to be made a mod once I noticed the original mod was no longer active. I won’t have the time to remain an active mod here as the community grows, so if there are folks who would be interested in taking on that role, please leave a comment below expressing your interest and leave a brief note as to why you’re interested.

Thanks everyone!

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    61 year ago

    I’ll just throw in my two cents and say, to a degree… I like the bot.

    It provides us a diversity of topics that otherwise wouldn’t come to surface.

    The problem is that the bot isn’t curated. Amongst the gold is a lot of fluff and repetitive content.