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As long as all it is is something like a bot that checks a website and posts the latest links in it's own sealed off community ( just the bot allowed to post and maybe comments off to keep discussion on posts done by actual people ), I don't have much of a problem with it as long as it doesn't interact with others in the comments, real or bot. And as long as there's something like an icon to clearly show it's something like an RSS bot, I don't mind. Reporting them, I'd say they're fine not to be as long as they don't interact with people.
But other types of bots? Spam posting bots? Yeah, maybe we shouldn't have them and they should be reported, after actually assessing whether or not they're an actual bot account and not just someone without a life. I don't care how much lower it makes the daily post count and such drops, I'd rather see less things that are posted by a human than more things posted by bots.
Also, this comment has made me a little annoyed because with how I have my phones keyboard set up, every time I type "bot" it wants so badly to autocorrect to "not" instead.