As almost everybody seems to agree (with regards to the comments on this post), why don't you simply state that reddit repost bots are forbidden on this instance and not generalize to each and every bot while there can be some useful use-case for news, aggregation from other Lemmy communities or so...
I have the feeling that talking about reddit related stuff become a bit the elephant in the room...
Well written code do not require comments, using good variable naming, dividing in simple operation through anonymous namespace functions well named.
Sometimes comments are still required but should be avoided because they trends to not remain in sync with updated code and IMHO it's worse to have lying comments rather than too few...
The more I read and see about AI / deep learning and the more I feel anxious...
I'm anxious because we seen during the covid crisis how many people were easily convinced of fake news and complotist theories that were by no way realistic, now I imagine that with the power of a forged argumentation from chatgpt and deep fake from midjourney... How to convince people they are wrong then...
I'm also anxious about the changes that will occur in the job I love, software engineering... I don't want to spend the rest of my life fixing bug in code automatically generated by an AI. Or worse to loose my job because some manager think I can be replaced easily by a bot ...
I think this might be useful for some kind of automatic aggregation of content from other communities or some specific cases. For example, I liked, when I was on reddit, the subreddit RedditRead on which each post was generated from other subreddit comments, one post by book found in the comment on a specific post in another subreddit. I thought about setting up the same here when I have a bit more time... Now, the posts would be all generated but users could still comments, so it's not purely artificial stuff...
Maybe one alternative would be to authorize such bot content generated communities but clearly flags them as such in the community sidebar or so. So people who are ok with generated content can subscribe and those who don't like can block.
In a general way, I have bad feeling about strong rules (except for stuff obviously wrong or destructive but here I don't think it's the case), and prefer case by case monitoring. In some cases it can be good for the community and in other very bad, and I find that saying just "it's forbidden" is too easy and frustrating decision.
As almost everybody seems to agree (with regards to the comments on this post), why don't you simply state that reddit repost bots are forbidden on this instance and not generalize to each and every bot while there can be some useful use-case for news, aggregation from other Lemmy communities or so... I have the feeling that talking about reddit related stuff become a bit the elephant in the room...