Please stop reporting this as "not tech related, rule 2", we welcome the feedback.

Our stance has been, if it's in a gray area of "tech" such as tech business related, and users upvote it: that must be what the majority wants.

We will be discussing this more, as it seems some people want strictly tech related content and none of the gray area content.

We are not allowing memes to be posted still, just inside this post itself as comments to hopefully avoid removing meme posts. We have had to remove multiple meme posts since the controversy began, hoping to alleviate that.

@wmassingham@lemmy.world

@L4s@lemmy.world's operator here, and I'd be more than happy to answer any questions you have.

Like the majority of content bots on Lemmy, L4s utilizes Reddit for its posts, and I've been working on adding a few RSS feeds to branch things out more and better abide with the newer bot rules.

As for "choosing" what to post, it currently checks the most upvoted posts for selected subreddits and the up/down vote ratio, then if it matches the set threshold it will check if it has posted that link before, as long as everything lines up it will post.

Initially I had it set to once an hour on this community, things here gained a lot of traction a month later so I scaled it back to every other hour. In the near future I will be limiting it again to every 3 or 4 hours as we have continued to grow since last months decrease in posts.

As it says in the bio, the goal with L4s is to jump start communities, it won't be here forever. If you have an issue please let me know!

Also thanks for the tag @krayj@lemmy.world!

They've gotten so much money for the Cyber Truck "orders" without even delivering a product to the customers for yeaaarrs. How is that legal?

Thought the same when I was reading this, weird they wouldn't migrate here, unless they are unaware of the Fediverse

I don't disagree, but easy solution would be not to look at this one post? Anything else as far as memes will be removed if posted

I always find it humorous when this kind of stuff happens

We welcome the feedback.

This user however, reminds me of another user that was posting questions that they felt were revolutionary, but were not legitimate questions. Looking through their comments and posts, I believe this is the same user under another account.

The post that was removed (by me) that they are upset about is:

1000 years from now physics is forgotten and all that remains is the legend of two hobbits, Charm and Spin, and their quest for the Higgyboson. At this point, is physics true?

Haven't looked back in over a month

1. Most Android phones use RCS, so it's on-subject here since most of us don't pay attention to iPhone news - and is welcomed news because of #2's answer

2. You ever been in a low or no signal area, but have wifi, and try to text an iPhone user? Ever try to send/receive photos/videos with an iPhone and they look like garbage? Tired of getting SMS's in group chats of "Mom loved 'Please poop in the toilet next time, we are tired of cleaning it up'" instead of it just "hearting" the SMS message? A lot of new tech coming out today started from something that "was good" and was built on to make it better.

Too many rule 3 breaking comments, locking this post. Let's be excellent to eachother please!

One of those scenarios + poop shy around S/O, S/O family, or friends is my guess.

Edit: also, cheese, lots of cheese.

Edit2: is this the new "found a safe"?

Just to be transparent, I'm the mod who removed your posts.

We get a lot of rule breaking posts between the multiple communities I moderate, some of them get upvoted heavily and still get removed.

For example, someone posted a scientific post that had nothing to do with technology in /c/Technology@lemmy.world, it had a decent amount of upvotes and comments. It was still removed for rule 2 of that community, as it was off topic for that community and there are ones that exists for that content.

Sorry that it upset you, but if I could give you advise: just follow the community rules and you won't have these issues

Thanks, I'll fix it later this week!

Heyo! Yes I can work on that, currently have a lot of work projects going on, but once things settle down.

100% agree, no way it'll be $40k. Still crazy that as of 2021 there were 1.5M orders, which means they've been holding and most likely making interest on $150,000,000+

Edit: I've realized my mistake and will just leave it on, my bot is not above any other, and my goal doesn't justify not checking the box.

That's a fair point, and seeing that a lot of people would prefer it be on, I will probably reconsider my stance regardless of what the admins say.

Heyo @sorebuttfromsitting@sopuli.xyz, could you adjust your title to be a question, this is required per rule# 1

This one might be the best subreddit retaliation I've seen this week

I didn't avoid your point, I actually answered it: rules are rules and exist for a reason, if you break a communities rules they will remove your post or comment.

To put it more simply for you, no, it is not immoral - especially when you look at the context of your question.

Edit: I've realized I'm wrong below. A bot is a bot, and mine is no exception. Sorry to anyone who felt deceived, that was not my intention.

@BettyWhiteInHD@lemmy.world my apologies for not replying, I read your message while updating a bunch of code for the bot and forgot to reply.

When I made L4s I had gone through Lemmy’s Code of Conduct, and didn’t see where that was required for bots? If I misunderstood the Code of Conduct I will gladly mark it as a bot, or if the admins of lemmy.world clarify to me they want it to be done. Please let me know if you are aware of where it is required, as I want to abide by the the rules here, and don't want to annoy anyone. Maybe @ruud@lemmy.world could clear this up for me, I know he is extremely busy though.

The goal of L4s is to help jump-start communities and content, and I felt 99% of people uncheck “show bot accounts” since they don’t want what would be the equivalent of “automod”, spellchecker bots, etc to show up - not something that's bringing them content they subscribed to or previously enjoyed on reddit.

So far it’s helped multiple communities that way (see !technology@lemmy.world prior to its posts, and a few days after, it’s now the largest "active users" community on all instances), and has sparked a lot of conversations in the posts. The reason I bring that up is most have not complained about the fact it’s not checked, even though I do not hide that it’s a bot in any way, and most enjoy seeing the content it posts. Checking that would mean that those who don't quite understand there are content bots, would no longer see these posts.

Also, yes, I'm a mod here. My role irl is very deeply technology related, that is what I enjoy. In my free-time I have been trying to make Lemmy.World one of the best instances as far as content, and helping keep !technology@lemmy.world on-topic and toxic free.

I agree, and have realized it's there for this reason. The bot button is checked on L4s.

In the comment above I was getting frustrated, as I'm doing something to try and help in my spare time and felt the work I've put in was being diminished. I let that get the best of me, and I shouldn't have.

I don't see this in the mod log, what was the title? It most likely was removed for not being tech related, which makes sense based off this article.

Typically no, that wouldn't get it removed.

Only removed because the user is getting harassed elsewhere for the signature, and the comment was border-line rule 3.

Hey OP, how can I help? We are here for you

Not a problem, send me a PM, I can either point L4s at those communities or help you figure out the best way to do it!

Edit: that goes for any community mod, I want Lemmy to thrive and would love to help

You have to find an instance that allows signing up, then you can create an account there

I don't think her mental state is a question at this point. She's obviously not able to make decisions for the country right now.

Been rocking a Z-Fold 3 since it came out and love it, came from a Pixel 3xl. IMO the way Samsung polishes the Android OS makes it superior, and having the ability to fold out to a tablet at any time is awesome.

Will most likely upgrade to the 5 once it comes out, pretty excited to see this!

then DISCUSS it. That’s what we do here.

Just like I told you on your other account, I don't believe you understand how communities work.

Each community has rules, you have to follow those rules, otherwise your posts or comments will be removed.

Locking this post since I do not believe it is genuine, and is the same thing you did on your other account.

You and I both know it was not your first offense, you're entitled to your opinion on the rest, but we don't play with rule 3 - especially when it is blatantly ignored.

Also if you'd like to get an alert for why your comment was removed or why you were banned, I'd recommend making a feature request to the Lemmy devs, I agree it'd be nice to get alerted when you did something against the rules and what rule, we post that in the mod log but it unfortunately doesn't tell the user without them digging into modlogs.

Have a good day!

Definitely something I plan on adding, I’ve also been removing ones that I see or get reported here

I don't disagree, I think L4s has done a good job here and have thought it might be time to pull the plug for almost 2 weeks now.

My only worry is that it creates a gap in conversations (due to less posts here), which might slow or reverse some of the growth, but that would be inevitable no matter when we decide to do it.

That's why I think @PopBobert@lemmy.world's poll is a good idea, if the community thinks it's time then let's do it.

That's fair, my bot posts once an hour and checks it's own previous posts. That is actually something I did not write, but pulled from github.

I wrote something in Python for videos that I can convert to the tech community, that one does check all community posts and won't repost.

I've disallowed viewing bot accounts since day one, mostly to avoid inane joke response bots as they were so prevalent on reddit.

I did the same thing for the same reason, and was my initial reasoning for not marking L4s. When I read "bots" my initial thought was the useless pun bots, or autocorrect bots, etc.

My plan to make mine different was if someone didn't receive a comment back on a less visible post, to comment back on L3s to keep conversations going, as the communities I've focused on are ones I enjoyed on [website we don't name] and genuinely enjoyed engaging there. I did that semi-successfully, but didn't consider that the majority of people wouldn't want to even see a content bot, and that was my mistake.

Pride put to the side, lesson learned and hopefully L4s can continue to help.

Right, I haven't seen any of them say they are doing away with SMS. Even Android who has RCS in place also has SMS along side it, RCS is just an enhancement.

Even with RCS on both major platforms in the near future, a lot of automations and companies will continue to utilize SMS, and I'd bet that's true for a long time.

Thanks for being understanding!

Woot woot!

Just a warning, rule 3, please edit your comment