then don’t expect anyone to bother helping you.

either a bot, or an lazy/inconsiderate typist.

The major thing holding them back among my friends and family is the lack of a proper iOS app. I know they have one on testflight, but it’s been there for literal years and I haven’t seen any progress being made to a full release.

For me it depends on what the bot is actually doing. I don’t have any problem with a bot that helps with moderation, provides an unpaywalled article, or others that help the user.

What I do dislike are all the bots that are just making posts from an RSS feed. If it’s a dedicated community for that purpose that’s fine, but that’s often not the case.

edit: I think a simple way to sum up my feelings is that I don’t want bots posting content, I want people to do that. Bots can help parse that content, or even provide context, but I don’t come here to interact with them.

It’s always sucked for them, and it always will. That’s why we make accommodations for them, like extra time or a smaller/move private exam hall.