Too many bot threads

[lucasbytegenius]

I think there's too many bot threads on this forum. I'm talking about the news threads by Fred that are posted so often. It really doesn't make the forum look good in my opinion as most of our content seems to be from that bot and I'm having a hard time finding the actual member-generated content.

I would like Fred to be removed if that's possible, to be frank. It just doesn't make the forum look good with false content :/

[thelowbudget]

Fred Is most likely a paid to post account that is botted so the user can make money on autopilot. I know because I am too but I'm only doing this out of pure interest however. I also agree this forum have this account removed from their database.

[Rob]

He just reposts news items from lxer.com ... I was going to go in and limit his daily posts today but didn't have a chance..

I agree he posts too much

[thelowbudget]

Yeah that's a waste of a perfectly good post. Every time he does that he is pretty much spamming. I bet he's just trying to build some rep or something a few people do things like that. I hate when I get something I can just go read somewhere else. I think a post limit would be the proper way to handle this user. It would be a small wake up call rather than permanent deletion of his account which is a little bit unfair to do without warning.

[Rob]

Heh.. no, he's part of the site.. we control him..

The way lxer works, you can syndicate their news, and it will point right to the source of the news instead of back to lxer.com. Picture it like we're posting linux news in the section that fred posts in.

I did slow him way down though the other day..

[lucasbytegenius]

Well I still don't like him being here. In my opinion, it's the members that should be contributing all the posts, not bots.

[Rob]

He's posting news in the news section - I like him. It saves me from posting the same things in the news section.

[W00t]

I mean, news bots are good to a certain point, but right now it's overkill.

[DarthVader3257]

I don't see the reason in why people use bots on forums anyways. I mean, what good does it do for them? All it does is hurt the forum, but the people that are using the bots gain almost nothing out of it.

[lucasbytegenius]

It was a good bot, meaning it didn't really spam the forums to advertise. It spammed to post news :P

I don't like news bots on forums anyway, it really makes the forum look like it has fake activity.