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…

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    883·
    3 months ago

    Some people are pissed that the format is spammy? That’s the complaint I’ve heard.

    I’d certainly prefer something like post tagging/labels but within the current feature set of lemmy I think it’s about as good as it could be.

    • Don_Dickle@lemmy.world
      1650·
      3 months ago

      I have never seen a bot that does good. Got sick of them on reddit and other sites. So when I see it here which is my safe haven. I will downvote or report it because it has not place here.

        • Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world
          113·
          3 months ago

          That’s what I said and was down voted for it. Oh well, that’s life on lemmy.

          Also did that, blocked the bot.

        • Don_Dickle@lemmy.world
          842·
          3 months ago

          Fuck that…not getting on admins or anything but sites need to get rid of bots unless they pay the site. And also get rid of clickbait shit that I saw on reddit but not here yet.

          • Bob Robertson IX@lemmy.world
            343·
            3 months ago

            So, because you don’t like bots, they shouldn’t be made available to others who appreciate them? Fuck that.

            The beauty of Lemmy is that you are in control of what you see, but that makes that you have to control it. Stop trying to dictate that I can’t have bots from instances that allow them.

          • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
            161·
            3 months ago

            The bot is made by the instance admins themselves, so don’t expect the bot to go away.

          • tyler@programming.dev
            121·
            3 months ago

            The bot was literally added by the instance admins. You think they should pay themselves???

      • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        out of personal curiosity, are you seeing this with the bots setting turned off? I thought that setting was a universal setting that just hide all bot posts for the account