• poVoq@slrpnk.netM
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    Seems like you are testing the Reddit scraper bot already? Maybe make a new account for it and mark it as a bot so that people can hide it if they want.

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      I’ll never understand the antibot sentiment. Reddit was filled with bots reposting stuff all the time too. Who cares? Let the votes decide if it’s good or not

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        It can drown out contributions and questions from actual humans using the site. So while you can also have a useful discussion on a bot posted thread, ultimately someone has to create original content somewhere and people get discouraged if their original posts are lost in a flood of bot posts.

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        One consideration is who controls the bot and decides what information it spreads.

        A corporation or government agency could use bots to have significant influence over decentralized social media

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          For sure. But isn’t that what votes are for? As long as it’s not from obviously problematic sources I’m still not seeing a big issue here either.

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            Bots can post advertisements, disinformation etc. More likely their message will spread if they keep exposing people to it. And yeah, bot accounts can also vote

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      Seems to me that the down time as the groundskeepers work damages the reputation, and possibly the income, of the course.

      That’s not mentioning the cost to the course for that work.

      In other words, it disrupts the golf course. That is exactly what a good protest does. If it doesn’t interfere in some way, even if only by being annoying, it isn’t a a useful protest at all.

      While it isn’t as disruptive as doing something like placing small amounts of explosives in the holes and then making craters out of the greens, that crosses into a protest that could injure someone, so there’s a hard limit on how far you can go

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      Spreading awareness and increasing focus on climate change so there’s more political will to mitigate and adapt