The news mod team has asked to no longer be a part of the project until we have a composite tool that polls multiple sources for a more balanced view.
It will take a few hours, but FOR NOW there won’t be a bot giving reviews of the source.
The goal was simple: make it easier to show biased sources. This was to give you and the mods a better view of what we were looking at.
The mod team is in agreement: one source of truth isn’t enough. We are working on a tool to give a composite score, from multiple sources, all open source.
I didn’t make the bot. I’m working on the aggregate tool, which isn’t developed yet.
The votes were overwhelmingly more positive than negative about it. We had the vocal minority against it, but the ones who wanted it let it be known.
Seems like we’re not reading the same thread https://lemmy.world/post/18775630
About half of the unique comments by my count are suggestions for improvements or expressions of support. The 10 posts with the most downvotes are all requests to remove the bot.
Let’s be realistic - this is far from consensus.
The 10 posts with the most downvotes are all requests to remove the bot.
These are some highlights from the top 12 posts sorted by “top”…
- “My personal view is to remove the bot.”
- “One problem I’ve noticed is that the bot doesn’t differentiate between news articles and opinion pieces.”
- "You don’t need every post to have a comment basically saying “this source is ok”
- “I think it should be removed”
- “My personal view is that the bot provides a net negative, and should be removed.” <- me
- “Partisan fact-checking sites are worse than no fact-checking at all.”
- “Remove it.”
- “MBFC’s ratings for “factual reporting” are a joke.”
- “This thread is a mess.” <- also me, sorry
- “The bot is basically a spammer saying “THIS ARTICLE SUCKS EVEN THOUGH I DIDN’T READ IT” on every damn post. If that was a normal user account you’d ban it.”
- “The majority of feedback has been negative. I can’t recall a single person arguing in its favor, but I can think of many, myself included, arguing against it.”
- “In literally every thread I’ve seen it post in, it gets downvoted to hell.”
To put it charitably, 2 and 6 are only mildly critical or express tepid support, at best. The remainder are… something less than supportive.
I understand that this is not a democracy, and that it’s ultimately up to your good selves to guide the community as you see fit. However, I think there are valid criticisms to be made regarding your collective ability to engage with feedback.
Are you joking or something? Have you read any of the comments on that thread or this one? I really cant get how denial the mod team on some .world lemmy communities can be.
Nope, that’s not how it works.
There are instances that only allow up votes. There are people that will up vote any post by a dev as a show of appreciation for the effort, without necessarily thinking about or agreeing with the changes.
If you want a poll, then you have to do a proper poll. Up- and down votes are not it.