Two file management apps on the Google Play Store have been discovered to be spyware that quietly sends user data to servers in China.
And respectfully, I don’t think it’s up to you to make that distinction for users that choose to opt out of seeing bot accounts.
Not to sound rude here, but I feel the same about you asking me to check that box.
Again, if the admins request me to check it, I will do it - or if the Code of Conduct changes. Lets see what they say in the post you made on !support@lemmy.world and go from there.
I was rude and wrong here.
Not to sound rude here, but I feel the same about you asking me to check that box.
Task failed. These provisions were made with the expectation that individuals such as yourself would act in good faith. It’s alarming to hear that a moderator of any community feels they are above that standard.
I agree, and have realized it’s there for this reason. The bot button is checked on L4s.
In the comment above I was getting frustrated, as I’m doing something to try and help in my spare time and felt the work I’ve put in was being diminished. I let that get the best of me, and I shouldn’t have.
Thank you for understanding, I’m sorry if I came off combative myself. I would like to point out that the service you are providing is certainly useful. Personally, I’m only interested in seeing content that is parsed by a human and posted because of the natural interest around it. Otherwise, things get posted so fast and across enough communities that it drowns out all real and natural discussion in my subscription feed. That doesn’t mean other people won’t see and interact with these posts, and it doesn’t mean they don’t help grow a community. The nature of the fediverse itself seems to be a little messy, and sometimes people see different things even within the same community.
It might be nice for there to be a more fine-toothed control over what type of bot an account is flagged as, and what types of bots an individual user might see. I’ve disallowed viewing bot accounts since day one, mostly to avoid inane joke response bots as they were so prevalent on reddit. That’s going to be a problem long term, because automoderators were a critical aspect of moderating larger communities.
