# Thoughts around simulating topics?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/thoughts-around-simulating-topics/377632
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [August 6, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/thoughts-around-simulating-topics/377632 "2025-08-06T22:07:30Z")
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### Author: ![Bas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bas/32/294929_2.png) [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2025, 6:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/thoughts-around-simulating-topics/377632/3 "2025-08-07T06:32:19Z")

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> [@noahl](#):
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> Is there anything I should think about before we go forward with this effort?

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.

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This is key:

> [@Canapin](#):
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> 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?

If you’re honest and transparent about it, then it’s probably a perfectly fine experiment to run.

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