I liked auto tldr bot why not just let people block it themselves if they dont like it.
Was that the bot that just cut paragraphs from an article to shorten them, mangling context beyond comprehension in the process?
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.
I did like it when the site was pay walled
Just use archive.org! At least then you’re not getting an AI hallucinated “summary” of the article.
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So… how do I opt in to see the bot in the comments?
Ahh you see they pulled a sneaking in ya. You can’t its simply deflecting from the argument.
Its not deflecting, its the correct answer. Just because something isnt implemented yet, doesnt mean its an invalid solution.
When it comes to tools that help you stay informed, I’d say the opposite is true.
If one wants to maintain ignorance, they should have to do so at their own inconvenience.
Which tool is helping us stay informed?
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Considering you seem to dislike the whole concept of Bots, isn’t the Bot toggle in the Lemmy profile exactly what you want?
It auto ignores all posts and comments made by accounts marked as Bots. Sure, the owner of the account has to correctly mark it, but I feel that can easily be solved by reporting unmarked bots.
But I’m interested, if you would like to expand on it, how would you make a bot opt-in?
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You have no measurement of any bot’s popularity. You’re just making the claim without proof.
Ah, I see. We should just pass all bots through you for approval first.
Sorry, everyone else. I know some of you liked that bot, but wazoobonkerbrain doesn’t, so it’s switched off due to “popularity reasons”. If you want to experience open internet, you’ll have to find somewhere else.
Whether they are effective or not is definitely in question, but they are unquestionably intended to be informative. If they irritate you, you have the ability to exercise your right to block them.
You being annoyed at something you don’t like isn’t a reason to not have it.
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Here’s the thread that’s full to the brim with evidence of bias. Read it for yourself instead of listening to the liar that replied to you.
That thread was filled with people downvoting anyone who even attempted to disagree. It was also full of people claiming bias and then not backing it up with a single source, link to offending pages, etc. so yeah no wonder it was full of people saying they hated it. Anyone who said otherwise (like myself) got fucking reamed.
Here’s the thread that’s full to the brim with evidence of bias. Read it for yourself instead of listening to this liar.
how is it irratating. takes up almost no space. sounds to me like folks are angry they think other people will use it.
not really. there is no good way for people to know what bots are available. if they had a bots section in the settings where you could turn them on then maybe.
BUT U CANT OPT IN
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You can opt in to not seeing the bots.
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.
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.
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.
That’s an odd way to agree with me that the bot is entirely unpopular.
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…
Self deletions don’t appear in the mod log. Only moderator actions. That’s why it’s called the mod log.
Maybe a bunch of people just don’t like a bot being pushed that tells people what to think.
Still waiting for Rooki to see reason.
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.
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
Me after posting:
“Ohh, a reply notification for my dank post”
Me reading my inbox:
“It’s a fucking bot.”
You can disable seeing bot replies in your settings.
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.
Read this website https://unwatch.org/
Then check what its MBFC rating is https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/un-watch/
All you need to know.
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.
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.
Not to mention that MBFC is Israeli affiliated lmao
aaaaand stay out ya lowsy reddit origin binary blob O bits
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Tbh i was late to the hate. Wasn’t it run or sourced by ground news? Was it inaccurate or something?
It’s sourced by MBFC and Ground News. MBFC is ran by a Zionist.
In the end the rating of a website is not important, as long as the article posted is well sourced.
I just don’t get this complaint. Block the bot and you never have to worry about it again.
Linkerbaan is a shill. My guess is they’re against the bot because it will call out their authoritarian propaganda.
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.
To me it doesn’t make sense to get rid of a bot that objectively helps everyone (any article is now easily read from a summary) with an extremely controversial bot, that they will not take suggestions or feedback on.
Sure you can block what ever bots you want, and id say that is the best solution. However, you can’t choose to do that when Lemmy.world bans Autotldr and not mbfc.
Sober Barny sucks.
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This one.
I haven’t seen one. All they do is post fucking propaganda.
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