Reddit: bot disabled - please post manually

[Seb via Digitalmars-d]

Just a short annoucement for the people who lost track 
r/d_language due to the bot:

> As an attempt to increase activity in this subreddit we want to 
> try it without the bot for a while. Please announce relevant 
> stuff from the forum (or blog or elsewhere) here manually from 
> now on!

In short idea is that bot kills active discussions as it creates 
ghost threads that are seldom commented on or watched.
For a longer explanation see either [2, 3] or below:

> In fact it would be great to see the forum use reddit more 
> actively for heated discussions as everyone can judge the value 
> of a comment/thread and off-topic threads (or threads with 
> low-values) get down-voted very quickly. It might also help to 
> avoid such 50 pages threads (like auto-decoding) as the 
> most-important thread stays on top and newcomers to the 
> discussion don't have to read everything to get the gist and 
> reduce the constant noise of off-topic comments or personal 
> attacks on the NG. Another advantage is that discussions are 
> sorted after their current important and not after the latest 
> post.
> Of course there are some disadvantages too (e.g. 1) not all D 
> members might like reddit, 2) it puts reddit "out-of-sync", 3) 
> one can't repost outdated topics, and 4) we have to trust 
> reddit that they accidentally delete our discussions), but I 
> believe 1) isn't a big concern as we usually have active 
> discussions on the reddit thread of announcements and this just 
> about disabling the bot, 2) (out-of-sync) the NG is an 
> essential part of the D language and as thus many people check 
> it daily. Yes disabling the bot might put the people on reddit 
> "out-of-sync" with the main NG, but I argue that they check the 
> NG anyways and don't post here, because they know it's a dead 
> copy - not the original thread. 3) (no ghost posts) is a good 
> thing as it requires the reposter to think about reviving a 
> thread from the dead & summarizing the gist, 4) (data security) 
> reddit is a lot more unlikely to crash their servers. After all 
> it's a company with full-time developers working on it - no 
> offence to all the great people keeping the NG and it's forum 
> interface up & running.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/
[2] 
https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/4wr8v2/meta_bot_disabled_please_post_manually/
[3] 
https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/4vel7m/can_we_kill_the_dlang_bot_and_its_ghost_threads/