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Toxic and Inappropriate comments by the Community bot

The "Community" bot seems to have started writing comments. These seem less than helpful. For example:

Should I write "I opened him the door." after I had made him open the door?

Please add further details to expand on your answer, such as working code or documentation citations.

Asking for "working code" makes no sense at all. And "documentation citations" doesn't help in this case either.

I think this must be a fault of the automated system. But there doesn't seem to be a way of flagging the comments for mod attention.

Can someone turn off the automatic comments, or at least modify the advice to make it more suitable to ELL.


Actually I've had a look at some more comments, they seem to be automatically generated from the "first question" and "first answer" queues.

I think they are toxic. They are unwelcoming, unfriendly, hostile and everything that we shouldn't be saying to first users. Comments on first user posts should only be written by humans. This needs to be turned off on ELL.

Inappropriate comments by the Community bot

The "Community" bot seems to have started writing comments. These seem less than helpful. For example:

Should I write "I opened him the door." after I had made him open the door?

Please add further details to expand on your answer, such as working code or documentation citations.

Asking for "working code" makes no sense at all. And "documentation citations" doesn't help in this case either.

I think this must be a fault of the automated system. But there doesn't seem to be a way of flagging the comments for mod attention.

Can someone turn off the automatic comments, or at least modify the advice to make it more suitable to ELL.

Toxic and Inappropriate comments by the Community bot

The "Community" bot seems to have started writing comments. These seem less than helpful. For example:

Should I write "I opened him the door." after I had made him open the door?

Please add further details to expand on your answer, such as working code or documentation citations.

Asking for "working code" makes no sense at all. And "documentation citations" doesn't help in this case either.

I think this must be a fault of the automated system. But there doesn't seem to be a way of flagging the comments for mod attention.

Can someone turn off the automatic comments, or at least modify the advice to make it more suitable to ELL.


Actually I've had a look at some more comments, they seem to be automatically generated from the "first question" and "first answer" queues.

I think they are toxic. They are unwelcoming, unfriendly, hostile and everything that we shouldn't be saying to first users. Comments on first user posts should only be written by humans. This needs to be turned off on ELL.

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James K
  • 231.7k
  • 9
  • 13

Inappropriate comments by the Community bot

The "Community" bot seems to have started writing comments. These seem less than helpful. For example:

Should I write "I opened him the door." after I had made him open the door?

Please add further details to expand on your answer, such as working code or documentation citations.

Asking for "working code" makes no sense at all. And "documentation citations" doesn't help in this case either.

I think this must be a fault of the automated system. But there doesn't seem to be a way of flagging the comments for mod attention.

Can someone turn off the automatic comments, or at least modify the advice to make it more suitable to ELL.