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Honestly I'm (selfishly) kind of glad that they're shutting down, as awful as that is. I browse Reddit a lot and the fact that every single time somebody posted
by great_kraken 11y ago
Honestly I'm (selfishly) kind of glad that they're shutting down, as awful as that is. I browse Reddit a lot and the fact that every single time somebody posted a product, there would always be a PriceZombie bot commenting bugged me to no end.
- nathancahill 11y agoI've found that very helpful. Otherwise, I feel like I'm gambling when I buy something on Amazon. I could be getting the lowest price, or the highest. Amazon's price games are the worst (I know all stores do that to some extent, but Amazon's price swings are much bigger.. +-75% anecdotally)
- great_kraken 11y agoYeah, I guess I'd rather search myself if I'm actually considering buying a product. And most of the time, if I'm participating somewhere, I'm not actually looking for purchase advice myself, just reading, helping out, or discussing.
- nathancahill 11y agoI guess I'm pretty often looking for purchase advice in a lot of the subreddits I frequent. Helpful to get advice from people with domain knowledge.
- dipnuggetron 11y agoI'm with you, that is simply affiliate spam, no matter how much you mustache bacon it up cutesifying it for Reddit with a faux usefulness. Surprised they weren't banned from more subreddits.
- gtk40 11y agoCan't you just block the bot if it bugged you? There are several bots I block, but that's not one of them.
- cryowaffle 11y agoI don't know if is a RES feature or not but you can hover over a name and click "Ignore"
- great_kraken 11y agoYeah, it's an RES feature. I never noticed that actually because I keep most features of RES turned off, including Tagging, which I believe that is under, after searching for what you said.
- gdulli 11y agoBots are the worst kind of comments on reddit threads, after the ones posted by people.
- mysql102 11y agoThe robot can ignore individuals if requested. Additionally the robot only posts in subreddits where the moderators have granted the bot permission to post. Thus it doesn't post anywhere where it isn't wanted. Your situation is best resolved by adding the bot to your ignore, since you don't want to see it at all.