• 🦥󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Probably one of the few useful bots ever added to Reddit.

    We didn’t need a million and one spelling, grammar and whatever other stupid bots the place got infected with. Hopefully Lemmy doesn’t end up with them either.

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      Personally, I think the grammar bots fit right into Reddit culture.

      Everyone is a smarty-pants on Reddit!

      I do hope that people respect the instance hosts and go easy on the trivial bots when it comes to Lemmy though.

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        I didn’t mind the fact that it was there, I was always just annoyed at how useless the memory hints were. Like yeah, of course I could spell “neither” if I just remember the e comes before the i… that’s the problem.

        It’s like saying “if you want to be rich just get more money” or “NASCAR is easy cuz it’s all left turns”

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        I wish there were more. I just found out at work that “deprecated” and “depreciated” are different words, it was so embarrassing.

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        I always thought it’s funny to see such a spelling bot on linguistics themed subs where everyone was like “fck you descriptivist” and they were downvoted into oblivion

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        I mean, I like knowing when I’m saying something incorrectly, and learning the correct way to say it. I value communication through text a lot because I have some issues with communicating verbally, so I like to know how to properly write what I want to say. So I didn’t mind the grammar/spelling bots as long as they were polite about it, they were just providing accessibility to knowledge, at least in my eyes. It was the rude or condescending ones I didn’t like.

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      That one was good. I also liked the one that counted how many times someone has said the n word, but I do not think the n word is allowed here (which is better).

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      Probably one of the few useful bots ever added to Reddit.

      My favorite bot was AutoMod. The 3rd party app I used allowed me to block that bot, which was always the top post in every single thread.

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        I feel like I haven’t seen a single person use “could of” or “would of” here.

        The defense on Reddit was always “NOT EVERY1 ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE”

        I don’t have the largest sample size, but I’ve never met someone who makes this mistake whose first language isn’t English.

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      Personally, I think the grammar bots fit right into Reddit culture.

      Everyone is a smarty-pants on Reddit!

      I do hope that people respect the instance hosts and go easy on the trivial bots when it comes to Lemmy though.