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I know MediaBiasFactCheck is not a be-all-end-all to truth/bias in media, but I find it to be a useful resource.

It makes sense to downvote it in posts that have great discussion -- let the content rise up so people can have discussions with humans, sure.

But sometimes I see it getting downvoted when it's the only comment there. Which does nothing, unless a reader has rules that automatically hide downvoted comments (but a reader would be able to expand the comment anyways...so really no difference).

What's the point of downvoting? My only guess is that there's people who are salty about something it said about some source they like. Yet I don't see anyone providing an alternative to MediaBiasFactCheck...

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[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago

In America "Left / Left leaning" is to the right of "Democratic Socialists/ Social democrats" which is to the right of "Socialists/Communists". In countries where those are options, it can be confusing calling something that is on the right side of the above spectrum "left". The bot should have either a numerical score (Nazi =1, Right = 3, Left = 5, Dem Socialist = 7, Communist = 9) or it should have a "Socialist leaning" category so that people get that they aren't saying Al Jazzera is supportive of Marx

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[-] TalesOfTrees@lemm.ee 25 points 4 months ago

I hate it because I also hate pretty much all the bots. Automatic postings, pedantic auto-correction bots... all of them absolutely fucking suck and have contributed directly to how shitty the internet has become.

So fuck bots, and double fuck bot creators.

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[-] Toes@ani.social 23 points 4 months ago

I really like it, but I can see people being upset if it doesn't align with their world view.

[-] airportline@lemmy.ml 20 points 4 months ago

It's really annoying and I don't trust it

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[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 18 points 4 months ago

I like that they get downvoted because it puts the comment at the bottom. Knowing it's there, I can scroll down to check it if I want to see what it says. It' snot like downvoting it hides it or affects some long-standing karma number.

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[-] Netrunner@programming.dev 18 points 4 months ago

How about we just ban bots that don't say they're bots and call it a day?

[-] Pika@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 months ago

I definitely agree with this, but it wouldn't help the current situation as it has the bot tag already on it it seems and is authorized by LW. That being said I don't understand the complaints either, just block it and move on or turn off the bot setting in the user profiles

[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

It’s really fucking annoying. I blocked it so I don’t have to see it anymore.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

Actually, downvotig it has interesting benefits. If I want to know the bots' evaluation, I can scroll to the end to find it.

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[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

Lemmy users are super allergic to bots of any kind, so I would imagine most of them don't look past the fact that its a bot and don't care what it does or what it is about. Its a bot and bots are always bad in their eyes.

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[-] cdf12345@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago

The text needs to be better formatted . I skipped by it a lot at first because it looks like spam.

Make a cleaner way to display the info

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