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[–] [email protected] 200 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I liked auto tldr bot why not just let people block it themselves if they dont like it.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Was that the bot that just cut paragraphs from an article to shorten them, mangling context beyond comprehension in the process?

[–] [email protected] 61 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I rarely had that problem from the bot. Reading from it at least gave me more information and saved me a click without having to be bombarded with cookie notices and requests to subscribe to a newsletter.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

I did like it when the site was pay walled

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I love how the mods of the News community held a thread asking for feedback on the bias bot. Everyone overwhelmingly said it was full of shit and should be removed. The mods decided that it must be the text formatting that’s the problem, not the obvious lies the bot spews.

Edit: https://lemmy.world/post/18775630

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Then in another thread I came across they said they were open to any solution except getting rid of the bot. When I asked why that was off the table I got a copy paste strawman and then ghosted. I get that modding is a tough and often thankless job but if you make a decision like this that's wildly unpopular then refused to consider feedback it sends a poor message to the community. Hopefully a better solution can be found.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Anyone who said otherwise got downvoted to hell and deleted their comments because it was clear the bot haters are so fervent they do not care about facts, they just want to yell about hating something.

And the mods aren’t the ones that implemented the bot. It was the admins, so no shit the mods couldn’t do anything about it.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That’s an odd way to agree with me that the bot is entirely unpopular.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A slight follow-up: the mod log on Lemmy is public, and I can’t find much evidence to corroborate your claim that all of the supporting comments were self-deleted. Can you back up the claim you made?

Not to mention that anyone who is so worried about imaginary federated internet points to the point of deleting unpopular statements is a fuckin’ loser that isn’t worth listening to…

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

I don't hate bots, I don't even hate the MBFC bot but I feel strongly about it specifically because it spreads misinformation. Claiming that an arbitrary bias rating can in any way be considered a fact is going out on a limb, to put it mildly. I don't hate bots, I don't hate facts, and I don't like yelling. Frankly it's been pretty tiring to try and stay constructive whilst voicing concerns about something I am passionate about.

Instead of accusing everyone you disagree with of being a hater and wanting to yell at things, maybe we could engage honestly with the issue instead.

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Memory unlocked: I remember when i came here during the Reddit exodus there were so many bots just cross posting from Reddit it was so overwhelming cus posts had no discussion going on they were just there

[–] [email protected] 52 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Me after posting:

“Ohh, a reply notification for my dank post”

Me reading my inbox:

“It’s a fucking bot.”

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

You can disable seeing bot replies in your settings.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago

Not to mention that MBFC is Israeli affiliated lmao

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ok I wanted to see what are we dealing with here.

The website for the factual check is a bit shady in my opinion.

For example the guardian from UK is mixed because of "many failed fact checks over the last 5 years" I could only find 5 linked there and if that is all failed checks then it is still very good.

Then I looked at a news paper I know is the worst. BILD from Germany. It is also mixed. There was only one failed fact check linked and I don't think the analysis which leads to the conclusion is transparent enough.

So we have a relatively good news paper from UK and a lying shit of paper from Germany and both are mixed. If mixed has this much variance it doesn't mean anything.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Read this website https://unwatch.org/

Then check what its MBFC rating is https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/un-watch/

All you need to know.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

My favourite is the BBC bias rating analysis . Pretty blatantly feels based with no elaboration given as to how it was determined to have 'biased story selection '. Everything written in the analysis is apparently completely irrelevant to the final rating.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

When reading through the few examples I got the hard feeling that left news were much more harshly checked than right news.

This proofs that.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

aaaaand stay out ya lowsy reddit origin binary blob O bits

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Bots^[[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/they-took-our-jobs]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I just don't get this complaint. Block the bot and you never have to worry about it again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Linkerbaan is a shill. My guess is they're against the bot because it will call out their authoritarian propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm aware of Linkerbaan and their repeated violations of lemmy.world sitewide rules. I just don't understand why other people are in such agreement.

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