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what does everyone think about piped bot and other bots (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 5 months ago by RobotDaniel@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What are everyone's thoughts on bots like piped bot and tdlr bot

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[–] orgrinrt@lemmy.world 40 points 5 months ago

I think most clients should implement some kind of logic to remove bot comments form the comment counts. AFAIK, lemmy already has a feature to distinguish bots(?), so it should probably should be possible to at least suggest some easy enough api for that if none exist currently.