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Bot presence isn't the problem, the issues caused to the community by a high volume of scraping and spam is. Bots staying low impact and not being annoying enough to get banned is almost as good as eliminating them entirely, unless you're a perfectionist.


Not if they are shifting the narrative through subtler means.




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