/r/programming came back up two days ago and as far as I can tell everything relating to the blackout was wiped. I kinda expected it since spez was admin.

Another thing that surprised me was how much chatGPT bot spam there is (danm it is so so bad, wonder what the mods are doing over there… ah yes, spez).

I used to sort by hot so it was hidden away a bit for me before.

Anyways I hope Lemmy does not fall into the same pitfalls!

goes back into lurk mode

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    1001 year ago

    Another thing that surprised me was how much chatGPT bot spam there is

    Not really a bad thing. Part of the protest was to devalue the platform…

    See what /r/ProgrammerHumor/ is doing - all titles are camelCase, and all the comments started including and returning things. It’s not really something anymore that reddit could sell to AI content farms.

    If mods are removed for participating in the blackout, the next best thing is probably to let their sub go completely unmoderated and let things turn into a shitshow with unable content by spam bots.

    Don’t think you can really teach an AI bot something by letting it regurgitate it’s own output

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      1 year ago

      Oh Reddit who’s going to protect you from the AI invasion after you removed the mods?

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        221 year ago

        The solution is obviously to replace the mods by bots, to fight other bots.

        Battle bots, but virtual XD

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          101 year ago

          Then we got bots talking to bots about articles written by bots, moderated by bots. Its gonna be great.

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        11 year ago

        My absolute favorite response is what /r/madlads did - they made all of their subscribers mods.

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      121 year ago

      Lol, imagine if they included escape keys for various languages. Then reddit would really never be able to sell the data.