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Ban the MBFC bot (lemmy.today)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This bot is spreading misinformation.

This bot is spreading rightwing propaganda.

This bot is spamming every post.

This bot is consistently downvoted.

This bot degrades the user experience.

Please ban it.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The other day it labelled the internet archive as biased towards centre-left. The internet archive - it's like saying a stack of blank printer paper is biased. Beyond useless.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

I mean reality has a left wing bias. I'd like to see someone cute their real world experiences and get the boy to say reality is left center.

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

good point.

the internet: famously devoid of content.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Totally agree.

As a temporary measure, I have blocked that bot from my feed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Same, it does wonders.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Is that thing still around? I thought it had been removed based on the feedback

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

It has been removed from some communities, but still in some.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Only one I saw removing it was news, even then it sounded more like removed until blows over

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mods already said they won't remove it because they use it as a quick basis if articles get reported.

Which is kinda dumb because you could automate that client side without a community wide bot.

If they wanna have it, I'd rather have it link to a proper media aggregate site like ground news which combine both source reporting and published bias info from multiple sources:

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (9 children)

What bot?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

media bias fact check bot, super annoying

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Just block it if you don’t like it?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Something so universally destructive to understanding is not an opt-out feature of any competent system.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (13 children)

Why did you comment? If you followed your own logic then you would have just blocked me instead.

To be serious, I think it's much better for the community if we do not allow misinformation bots to spam every post.