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  • In my opinion, such bots indicate more of a need for some kind of easy “pipe” feature to integrate tools to transform a post before publishing, so that all of the tweaks can be done within the post instead of as a bot reply. For example, there could be a “MTG-ify” button that takes the text in the input box, turns the double bracketed names into CommonMark links, and then puts the modified text back into the input box.


  • My opinion is that bots should be classed by how they operate.

    Summoned bots should be mostly free of restriction. If it needs someone to explicitly summon it, then the onus is on them to not needlessly summon bots. Requiring explicit

    Keyword/auto-summon bots should at a minimum be required to implement easy user/community/instance opt-out. I think the most viable would be allowing auto-summon only when explicitly allowed by the user, community, or instance, but allow them to reply to manual summons without restrictions.

    So how it would work is if someone had a bot that would, for example, post Nitter links in response to Twitter links, it would be allowed to:

    • Respond to @[email protected]
    • Respond on posts by someone who’s indicated they want the bot to auto-reply to their posts
    • Respond to posts on a community that allows the bot to do so