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.
We’re here in a thread discussing the next incarnation of the bot which presumably will be coded by a mod and under your control?
Maybe. Nothing has been developed yet, so everything is very much up in the air.
That’s not what open source means (by the way, that was yet another user feedback suggestion that we are working to implement).
A bot may be coded by a mod, under your control, and open source. They are not mutually exclusive characteristics.