On its face, no. Change venue to a writing forum, would a bot posting writing prompts be bad? Maybe, but I think it would be worse if it were bots answering.
For the long term, Lemmy karma doesn’t work like Reddit karma. The up and down votes are tracked, but it’s not like Reddit where you could farm karma and then sell it to a company that would use your karmic rating to boost past commoners to get their ads more prominently displayed. That system had its benefits, but it wasn’t all good. Over here, all you can really hope for is a catchy username that people mentally associate with good posts going to an advertiser, who is then banking off the goodwill established by the original owner.
At the end of the day, bots should be declared as such. I have no problem interacting with a bot as long as I know it’s a bot. But this begs the question — how do you know I’m not a bot? I use em dashes and I use the markdown formatting. I also use good grammar and the King’s English for the most part (I’m with the yanks on “maneuver,” fuck whoever made that word what it is) but I may or may not be one of the King’s own subjects. Maybe I’m a bot and I don’t know it. There are a few movies about that, maybe some games too. Then again, I accidentally cut myself shaving last week, so who knows. I’ve never heard of a bot doing that. Now if bots start acting like Millennials with their slang and their bad grammar and their wanton disregard of the English language, how fucked are we? Because right now a lot of people think I’m a bot because I have a high command of the language. I feel like in a few years, most of your bots will better integrate with how most people communicate online, not necessarily the best writers online.
On its face, no. Change venue to a writing forum, would a bot posting writing prompts be bad? Maybe, but I think it would be worse if it were bots answering.
For the long term, Lemmy karma doesn’t work like Reddit karma. The up and down votes are tracked, but it’s not like Reddit where you could farm karma and then sell it to a company that would use your karmic rating to boost past commoners to get their ads more prominently displayed. That system had its benefits, but it wasn’t all good. Over here, all you can really hope for is a catchy username that people mentally associate with good posts going to an advertiser, who is then banking off the goodwill established by the original owner.
At the end of the day, bots should be declared as such. I have no problem interacting with a bot as long as I know it’s a bot. But this begs the question — how do you know I’m not a bot? I use em dashes and I use the markdown formatting. I also use good grammar and the King’s English for the most part (I’m with the yanks on “maneuver,” fuck whoever made that word what it is) but I may or may not be one of the King’s own subjects. Maybe I’m a bot and I don’t know it. There are a few movies about that, maybe some games too. Then again, I accidentally cut myself shaving last week, so who knows. I’ve never heard of a bot doing that. Now if bots start acting like Millennials with their slang and their bad grammar and their wanton disregard of the English language, how fucked are we? Because right now a lot of people think I’m a bot because I have a high command of the language. I feel like in a few years, most of your bots will better integrate with how most people communicate online, not necessarily the best writers online.