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.

    • @fine_sandy_bottom
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      Upvoting that post is not an indication of support for the bot.

      Look at the comments in that post. Overwhelmingly negative feedback.

    • @RunawayFixer@lemmy.world
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      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.

      • Five
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        19 days ago

        I want the bot gone but didn’t downvote the post. I support the mods reaching out for feedback, and also downvoting could decrease the visibility of the bot’s overwhelming negative reception.

    • @stormesp@lemm.ee
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      1220 days ago

      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.

      • @JonsJava@lemmy.worldOPM
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        420 days ago

        I read every comment. As I’m a mod here, I will only be civil, so I am keeping all my thoughts to myself. Have a good day.

        • @stormesp@lemm.ee
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          1120 days ago

          And you have the balls to cite the upvotes on that thread as an argument when you know for a fact most feedback is against the concept of the bot itself? People upvoted that thread because the title made it seem the mod team was willing to do something.

          • BlackbeardM
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            19 days ago

            …which we just did.

            Edit: Downvoted for removing the bot like people asked. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.