I think if you made a bot that posted the same comment on every post except for, say, a link to a high-quality audio narration of the post, it would probably be acceptable behaviour.
EDIT: Though my true rejection is more like, I wouldn’t rule out the site admins making an auto commenter that reminded people of argumentative norms or something like that. Of course, it seems likely that whatever end the auto commenter was supposed to serve would be better served using a different UI element than a comment (as also seems true here), but it’s not something I would say we should never try.
I think as site admins we should be trying to serve something like the overall health and vision of the site, and not just locally the user’s level of annoyance, though I do think the user’s level of annoyance is a relevant thing to take into account!
There’s something a little loopy here that’s hard to reason about. People might be annoyed because a comment burns the commons. But I think there’s a difference in opinion about whether it’s burning or contributing to the commons. And then, I imagine, those who think it’s burning the commons want to offer their annoyance as proof of the burn. But there’s a circularity there I don’t know quite how to think through.
I think if you made a bot that posted the same comment on every post except for, say, a link to a high-quality audio narration of the post, it would probably be acceptable behaviour.
EDIT: Though my true rejection is more like, I wouldn’t rule out the site admins making an auto commenter that reminded people of argumentative norms or something like that. Of course, it seems likely that whatever end the auto commenter was supposed to serve would be better served using a different UI element than a comment (as also seems true here), but it’s not something I would say we should never try.
I think as site admins we should be trying to serve something like the overall health and vision of the site, and not just locally the user’s level of annoyance, though I do think the user’s level of annoyance is a relevant thing to take into account!
There’s something a little loopy here that’s hard to reason about. People might be annoyed because a comment burns the commons. But I think there’s a difference in opinion about whether it’s burning or contributing to the commons. And then, I imagine, those who think it’s burning the commons want to offer their annoyance as proof of the burn. But there’s a circularity there I don’t know quite how to think through.