I assume they mean good by 'generating' content in communities, but I don't see a reason why anyone would comment on them since the OP is on Reddit and will never read them.

I know I can block each individual account as I come across them but I'd just prefer to block them all so I don't see their content at all.

They appear to do the nice thing by adding a line in the submissions about it being an automated submission. Is there a filter for words/phrase found in the body of a submission?

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[–] emma@programming.dev 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I believe there is a setting to disable seeing posts from accounts labelled as a "bot account". (I realize that this would technically also hide all other bots, not just reddit repost ones, but I personally don't really know of any content posted by a bot that I want to see).

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I personally don’t really know of any content posted by a bot that I want to see).

Some communities use bots to schedule recurrent posts. Those can be useful, and mostly provide a feature we'll hopefully see built-in the platform in the future

[–] Nighed@sffa.community 4 points 10 months ago

Possibly moderation bots too.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Automated mod actions, Sports game threads, L4s, Hackernews reposts, sales threads, weekly threads are what you might miss out on.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 7 points 10 months ago

My instance has daily threads. It'd be nice to distinguish between community bot and generic bot. I should see if there's a request for that already.

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca -1 points 10 months ago

I want more sports related bots to post, I know I missed blocking some. Roaches they are, everywhere.

[–] octoperson@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think the TLDR bot has its purpose.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee -1 points 10 months ago

I've blocked that one, I found it was rarely useful.