{“content”:“גשו אלינו מצוות הצמיחה שלנו (SEO ו-GEO (נראות בתוכן גנרטיבי - ChatGPT, Perplexity וכו’)) שרואים את הערך, וכבר רואים תוכן מהפורום עולה בשיחות GEO.\n\nיש להם מגוון רחב של תכנים שהם מתמקדים בהם כרגע, והציעו ‘לדמות’ נושאים בפורום שלנו, אך באופן שבחיצוני, זה לא נראה שונה מכל שיחה אחרת.\n\nלדוגמה, יצירת 5/6 חשבונות, ופרסום שאלות מחשבונות אלו, שם נוכל להגיב/לעודד את הקהילה להגיב מה’פרצופים הרגילים’ הרגילים בקהילה.\n\nבעיניי, בליבת הדברים, זה לא שונה משיחות ותשובות אורגניות - למעט העובדה שאנו שותלים שיחות אלו למטרת SEO/GEO טובים יותר.\n\nהאם זה משהו שאחרים עושים? האם יש משהו שעלי לחשוב עליו לפני שנמשיך במאמץ זה?”,“target_locale”:“he”}
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I remember a few topics/posts about that, most being pre-AI-era:
I guess the main thing in your suggestion is that no bots will answer; they will just start topics, right?
I don’t know from a business perspective. Maybe it’s beneficial in the long run. Perhaps it can help a community grow.
My guts tell me that I don’t like the idea of answering a bot without knowing it’s a bot, but I don’t have any particular argument to expose (though some are written in my posted links’ answers).
I’m 100% sure I have answered at least one bot at some point on Reddit in the last years or months, and I don’t like this idea. It reminds me of my dog who once tried to interact with a lifeless terracotta pig at a flea market, thinking it was a living creature (that was both sad and funny).
Now, if a topic is created by a bot, and is labelled as such, and a legitimate, constructive discussion starts between participants about the proposed topic, why not?
I hope I understood your post well, and that I’m not off-topic 
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Communities are built on trust. Breaking that trust risks immediately losing all your high-value contributors.
For me personally: If I found out that I spent hours answering some bot, I would never volunteer my time to a community again. It breaks the social contract under which a community operates.
This is key:
If you’re honest and transparent about it, then it’s probably a perfectly fine experiment to run.
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quoted for truth. If you’re pursuing growth at all costs, and you don’t care about your reputation, intend to have no relationship with your users, that’s another case.
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This is the opposite of organic conversations and answers.
Doing this without disclosure to the community is grossly disrespectful both to your users and to the spirit of the community you’re trying to create.
Do what your boss says, but frame what you’re doing properly and don’t try to put a fig leaf over it. This is not “organic.” This is faking content as a SEO play, full stop.
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קונספט מעניין, כדי להניע את המעורבות “באופן מלאכותי”. דעתי בנושא היא שאם זה נועד להגביר את דירוג ה-SEO, אז היי, זה קצת כמו לרמות, נכון? אבל באותו זמן זה יכול גם לעורר דיון (שאני מאמין שזו גם הנקודה).
כמו שאחרים הזכירו, חשוב לציין שזה בוט. יש משתמשים שלא אכפת להם הרבה מ-SEO.
הייתי אומר את זה - השתמשו בשיחות האלה גם לדיון, לא רק ל-SEO. למעשה, הייתי אומר שדיונים מעשירים ומעמיקים חשובים יותר מ-SEO - זה קשור לקהילה.
אם שיפור ה-SEO הוא תופעת לוואי, אז זה בונוס נוסף. אבל דעתי היא לא להפוך את ה-SEO למרכז, אלא את הקהילה והדיונים המעשירים.
לא בטוח אם זה רלוונטי לחלוטין, אתם מוזמנים לתקן אותי.
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I ran a little experiment with Discourse HelperBot and I think this was pretty cool.
If you use this –properly labeled– in public, that could actually spark some interesting discussion. Last year we went through a similar exercise internally at Discourse. Where we played a game of “trip up the bot”. Any time someone managed to make the bot answer with a lie.. we’d fix the documentation.
And yes, I do think having something like this could help with SEO/GEO. Have the AI generate a ton of content, which you verify to be true. Have it be a part of the Google index, but put it in a default-muted category maybe?
It can certainly be helpful for other users who are using search phrases that don’t appear in the documentation for example.
But don’t break trust, never break the trust 
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Exactly, I wouldn’t want to undermine that kind of intention either. I personally wouldn’t mind a forum where an AI is trying to start conversations at all; think “What’s everyone’s opinion on XYZ”; but as others have said, it just has to be clear it’s AI.
I definitely think there can be value in it, especially for communities that are just starting out and having trouble filling up their content, but I’m convinced quality above quantity is the way to go.
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Appreciate all the thoughts and perspectives shared here 
Just to clarify one detail that might help add context - to make sure I explained it fully:
This wouldn’t involve bots, AI, or company-branded accounts. These would be real people from our team, using their personal accounts, asking real questions (which happens already from time to time) - the same way anyone might if they were facing an issue and turned to the community for help.
The only difference is that the questions would be intentionally seeded to cover topics we know are valuable (from an SEO/GEO perspective) but aren’t yet well represented in the community.
Not sure if this shapes the conversation, but definitely hear all the points about trust and transparency, and I really appreciate the discussion 
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This topic reminded me of this blog post
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I guess it is a sign of the times when it seems most (including myself) assumed you were talking about bots. 
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אני חושב שהמילה “מדמה” בלבלתי את כולנו. מודים שמפרסמים נושאים כדי להתחיל דברים פשוט מרגיש… נורמלי בשבילי? xD
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Yeah, that doesn’t seem all too bad
Many, many, communities have started that way. Usually people stop after the community takes off. But doing it for SEO reasons makes total sense and is wise community management.
Don’t overdo it though. In stage i’d probably limit it to 2-3 topics per week at most, probably less. Still nets you 100 topics in a year, good win for SEO.
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I think the main difference to “is it upsetting or not” is are you answering a QUESTION or participating in a DISCUSSION?
If a bot asks how to set up a garden or something and you spend a lot of time giving a detailed answer, that would be annoying because it doesn’t care, it isn’t helping, and it’s (possibly) pointless (it could end up helping someone who wasn’t the intended target at a later point, as is often the case with reddit overwhelming google results). Now if the bot is just starting a discussion about something (“What are some gardening techniques you’ve picked up”) where you’re not actually responding to the bot and the original post isn’t really the focus of the topic the posts are, you (hopefully) have a discussion amongst people in the comments, prompted by the bot; the bot is not really important and actually mostly irrelevant.
In the second case it’s not any different from an admin/mod starting some random starter topics just to get the site going. And if it’s relevant to the board I don’t know how many people would really care how the discussion was started even if you hid the bot interaction and it was discovered later.
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