>  Vigilante justice is a use-case I'd be willing to forgo, especially since
> it gives you disproportionate power to those that do play by the rules.

>  On Friday, 02 November, 2012 at 07:04, Thegeekprofessor wrote:

> Here's a scenario. Let's say I have a bot that looks for unattributed art,
> finds the source and posts it in the comments and downvotes the submission
> for not properly giving artists credit. It's exactly what I would do if I
> had the time to monitor it and it's a value to the community in that
> submissions that trample on artists SHOULD be downvoted.

> That's my feeling anyway. I can think of several others as well, but bots
> are essentially the will of users.

> On Thursday, November 1, 2012 3:24:40 PM UTC-7, David King wrote:

>  I don't work for reddit, but it's my personal opinion that there is
> exactly 0 reason for a legitimate bot to vote *ever*. Voting is inherently
> the act of a human saying that they want to see more of content like the
> voted item. Bots aren't humans and don't want.

> On Thursday, 01 November, 2012 at 14:38, thegeekp...@gmail.com wrote:

> I've tried really hard to make a few available PHP implementations work
> and discovered that I can comment, but only infrequently and I can't vote
> EVER.

> Someone suggested this might be a user-agent problem so I set that, but it
> hasn't changed anything. Do I need a verified e-mail on my bot account?

> Here's most of the code I'm currently using (I dumped the unnecessary
> parts before pasting to save time): http://pastebin.com/hG6YSvJH

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