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"reddit_sales_repost_bot" banned for 26 days: Reason: No ads (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by mp3 to c/main

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Seems a bit harsh to neuter the [email protected] community for almost a month because of an automated action?

Not exactly its fault if it just caught and mirrored some spam from Reddit..

EDIT: I see the bot is now unbanned, thanks!

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[–] Swim 3 points 2 years ago

Mirroring spam, no thanks

[–] Guns4Gnus -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

With that name, it seems its entire purpose was just to spam advertisements from Reddit.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[–] mp3 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't see a good solution to this, either the bot reposts the sales on a timely manner before you miss them, or you get people to manually post the sales. However with the current volume of users here I don't see the second option equaling or surpassing Reddit in terms of usefulness.