Machine generated comments would include a generic comment posted via a script.
That is rather unfortunate and excessively broad, IMO.
I’ve been thinking for a while that it would be quite helpful to have some form of bot(s) that could simply link to ID guides for certain difficult taxa. Given the ever-growing backlog of observations in the ‘Needs ID’ pile, assistive tools like that could be helpful.
Can the underlying issue —
our community simply were not made to accommodate the speed, volume, and other characteristics of machine-generated content.
— be addressed through rate-limits or similar technical fixes?