Right, but my assumption - and maybe it’s totally wrong - is that people probably follow multiple related communities, whether they’re small or not, to get multiple sources of similar info. If that’s the case, your bot effectively just spams their feeds. It sounds like your fix in your #1 may change that, which is nice.
Either way, I could see an argument for a ban being too strong a reaction. Especially because it’s easy enough to block a bot as a user - I’ve blocked a few already.
Oh, that definitely makes sense. I switched away as concerns around third-party trackers came up, in 2021. If I’d only been able to export a CSV with a few rows, I’d have been upset about it.