On Beehaw there are a few tldr bots from other instances. I present Beehaws own summarizing bot developed by yours truly. Based on feedback from moderators and community leaders, I don’t just want to let this loose on the entire site. Might cause confusion and spam for a community instead of being useful. If you do like what that bot does, and are a moderator of a community on Beehaw that wants to use it; send a private messaged to AbstractifyBot stating Summarize articles on c/[communityname].
That’s just one aspect, but I have a few more questions while I have your attention.
- What type of bots if any do you want to see on Beehaw to help things/your community?
- Which functions of the ‘nice to have’ should be built in and not reliant on a bot to do?
- What do you need for your communities to thrive here?
I have a browser plugin now that summarises links (without needing to click on them). More people should use those and I think we should encourage that over these bots.
If the bot was posting a summary as part of the post I’d be fine with it, but please don’t do it as a comment. It’s often the last comment anyway, which isn’t helpful at all.